Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 23rd Mar 2007 17:58 UTC, submitted by anonymous
Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu "The Ubuntu developers are moving very quickly to bring you the absolute latest and greatest software the Open Source Community has to offer. This is the Ubuntu 7.04 Beta and it comes packed with a whole host of excellent new features including the released GNOME 2.18, the 2.6.20 kernel and much more."
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Nice
by JMcCarthy on Fri 23rd Mar 2007 18:10 UTC
JMcCarthy
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2005-08-12

I have no idea if this was just added, or if it was included earlier in Feisty's development, but the dialog allowing you to select alternate mirrors when you select 'other' under software sources is really nice, especially "select best location".

beats repeatedly editing sources.list yourself until you find a decent server. I normally only get around 30Kbps using the default.

the little things