On Thursday 24 April 2008, Phill Coxon wrote: > The official Ubuntu home page has a press release talking about 8.04 > being released: > > "LONDON, April 21, 2008 – Canonical Ltd. announced the upcoming > availability of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Desktop Edition for free download on > Thursday 24 April. In related news, Canonical also announced the > simultaneous release of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server Edition." > > So I think the "Coming Soon" refers to the final 24 hours and it will > be officially released tomorrow on the 24th (US time). > > I'm running the release candidate and the daily updates have tapered > off - only 2 packages this morning - so gut feeling suggests they have > the final release ready or very close to it.
There are images dated 23 April superseeding the rc versions on Ubuntu's servers. I have six of them. Now waiting for the official md5sums. Hope to get the DVDs in a few days. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818 Fax +64 3 488 2875 Mobile 027 663 4453 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - personal. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - business
