The New Ubuntu 10.10 Installer Is Live

Wow, neat!

The GUI has nice pictures along with the text. These pictures are truly worth a thousand words

sounds like some great additions, the update downloading and installing mp3 spport and such right away, in the installer.

It's about time they offered a way to install codecs and flash. I'm also happy that i don't have to spend an hour downloading updates.

Looks really .... ... UGLY!

See that? While you're locating your region, making a new user account, and setting keyboard layout, the installation is running simultaneously!

There seems to be a lot of effort into the installer every release, but I don't think they are any better from years ago, just different. Just my opinion.

Looks good, hopefully more comes to Ubuntu 10.10. So far 10.10 looks like a solid Mac OSX/Windows 7 alternative.

hehehe...Bucharest huh? Ce-mi place ca din toate tarile, noi romanii suntem cel mai pasionati de linux :D

M-ai facut mandru in dimineata asta:P

I like it, it just needs a few more tweaks. Must make it simple and straight forward for new users to install.

I like the option of giving users choice of free software with a simple explanation. Hopefully it keep the free software only people quiet.

I like where Ubuntu is going. I like to see commercial software available in the software centre, and to make easy for developers to make their programs available.

I wonder if it's possible to have a donate button for software built into the software centre instead of people going to the website. I think this will encourage donation and software development.

When are they going to fix the timezones? I'm in the US CST, but I'm nowhere near Chicago.

what a shame that offers proprietary software installation (flash) as would be something "better". Should also mention that "takes away your freedom as software user", and probably erodes your freedom as a citizen too.
If proprietary software would be something desiderable, one should choose M$ or Apple chains.

its really cool one

Does the installer still take a long time installing language packs if connected to the internet? I've taken to making sure I'm not connected to avoid that, and would probably still do so despite the new driver and update advantages of being logged in while installing if the language packs will still install automatically.

fyi, adding more questions to the install process doesn't make it more accessible. If users want advanced install then point them to the alternative install.

what a waist of valuable time and energy

Ubuntu is still hard to use compared to OSX and windows. One thing that may attract me to use ubuntu is paid software.

You try installing a total of 9 times in a little over 5 hours, with windows...

You may not know what is necessary to install a non-windows system, but, since you have a Mac addendum, I would say you are familiar with Unix options. I find the installs of Ubuntu very easy (they could allow a bit more info on putting other partitions up like /home, etc. but, that is not mandatory)

Paid software part of the store is in the latest 10.10 :)

Not good software just paid software right? I've been on Ubuntu for about 3 years now and no one in my household has found it harder to use. In fact at times we've found it much easier.

If your computer doesn't have electrical power how could the user read the install message? Also one doesn't need to be connected to the Internet to test the live CD.

I tried installing 10.10...

Things all went great, and I kept only 'install' updates, etc...

At the second restart... It buggered up, and would not bring the system to any screen...Period.

I have been running Ubuntu, exclusively, since 4.04...

Nothing like this has happened before, 4 times (alternating between re-installs of 10.04 and 10.10-total 8 installs)

I know the release is 'Alpha' and less...

But, Backing up your data, (easier to have data on separate partition, too) is mandatory...

Alpha 3 is definitely not ready for prime time.t

They should include the option of turning compiz-fusion on/off in their installation procedures, like the ones Mandriva uses in order to avoid hangups/lockups in the X server. This is what happens with the previous releases of Ubuntu and I have a pain in the neck trying to resolve the problem.