http://www.fooishbar.org/blog/2004/Sep/16 Daniel Stone http://www.fooishbar.org/blog/2004/Sep/16 daniel@fooishbar.org Copyright 2004-2009 Daniel Stone, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License PyBlosxom http://pyblosxom.sourceforge.net/ 1.3.2 2/13/2006 2004-09-16T20:12:00Z http://www.fooishbar.org/blog/2004/09/16/sixPointOne-2004-09-16-21-12 2004-09-16T20:12:00Z 2004-09-16T20:12:00Z Last night, a humble pub in Sydney (the James Squire Brewhouse, Darling Harbour) hosted the release of not one, not two, but three major components of a free desktop. GNOME 2.8, <a href="http://www.ubuntulinux.org">Ubuntu</a> 4.10 (aka Warty), and <a href="http://freedesktop.org/~xorg/X11R6.8.1/src/">X11R6.8.1</a> all got released, and all but the last throes of the Ubuntu release (it was closed by the time that was released) was done from the JSBH. <br /><br /> X11R6.8.1 initially went very smoothly, but then had some hitches, which involved the tarballs being removed with an allegation that some patches still needed to be applied (they didn't), and a duplicate announcement being sent. As a result of this, ftp.x.org isn't actually carrying 6.8.1 yet; the <a href="http://freedesktop.org/~xorg/X11R6.8.1/src/">master source</a> is on fd.o. But, to be absolutely clear, it is released for sure, and it is a security release, so you are advised to upgrade ASAP. <br /><br /> On to happier matters, Ubuntu was released yesterday, and I couldn't help but feel immensely proud of it -- like a doting parent. It's amazing how far it's come even from just a few weeks ago, and hopefully continues to rock as much.