Mythbuntu 9.04 Beta Has Arrived!

The time has arrived for Mythbuntu Jaunty Jackalope to emerge in its Beta form.  With this release, we are providing mirroring on sponsored mirrors and torrents.

It is very important to note that this release is not compatible with Mythbuntu 7.10 or any other MythTV 0.20.2 based distribution.

Changes from Mythbuntu 9.04 alpha 6:

Underlying system

 * Alternate disks are still not being made.
 * Underlying Ubuntu updates (see http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/jaunty/beta)

MythTV

 * MythTV 0.21-fixes19961 included.
 * Better handling of mysql errors

Improvements not on the disk

 * MythExport
 * There is a new .deb for installing and configuring the weekly builds repo. More on this here

For more detailed feature information please visit us on launchpad


We appreciated all comments and would love to hear what you think. Please make comments to our mailing list, on the forums (with a tag indicating that this is from 9.04 or jaunty), or in #ubuntu-mythtv.

As previously,
If you encounter any issues with anything in this release (including ubiquity), please file a bug on launchpad:
http://bugs.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/9.04/

Known issues

 * During the live session, you may not be able to use mythtv-setup or run mythfrontend on a system that does not use hardware acceleration for it's open source driver. After install, this has been fixed in web updates. Closed source drivers (AMD & NVIDIA) are not affected.


The ISO is available here:

MD5SUMS

i386 Builds

Desktop Disk Direct Mirror
Desktop Disk Torrent

AMD64 Builds

Desktop Disk Direct Mirror
Desktop Disk Torrent