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Mythbuntu 10.04 Beta 1 has been released.  With this release, we are providing mirroring on sponsored mirrors and torrents.

It is very important to note that this release is only compatible with MythTV 0.23 systems. Previous Mythbuntu releases can be upgraded to MythTV 0.23 with the builds located at http://www.mythbuntu.org/auto-builds For a fuller explanation see here

Changes from Mythbuntu 9.10:

Highlights

• Snappier frontend
• Better integration w/ system services like upstart and consolekit
• New mcc plugins
• Simplified live frontend

Underlying system

• Underlying Ubuntu updates (see http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/lucid/beta1)

MythTV

• Recent snapshot of MythTV 0.23 included (see 0.23 Release Notes)
• New Plugin - MythNetVision 
• Mythbuntu theme fixes
• New Theme - ArcLight

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 10.04 or karmic), or in #ubuntu-mythtv.

As previously,
If you encounter any issues with anything in this release, please file a bug using the Ubuntu bug tool (ubuntu-bug PACKAGENAME) which automatically collects logs and other important system information, or if that is not possible, directly open a ticket on Launchpad (http://bugs.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/10.04/).

Known issues

• None :)

The ISO is available here:

MD5SUMS

i386 Builds

Desktop Disk Direct Mirror

Desktop Disk Torrent

AMD64 Builds

Desktop Disk Direct Mirror

Desktop Disk Torrent

As some of you may have noticed the Mythbunu.org site has been a state of flux for many hours today. We have been upgrading to Drupal 6 and cleaning up our configuration. As you may have noticed we ran into some unexpected issues but we appear to have resolved them at this time. Thank you for the patience while we upgraded our system.

With the new upgrades we are allowing users to login to the site using OpenID at http://mythbuntu.org/user

Any wiki pages under the namespace http://mythbuntu.org/wiki and http://mythbuntu.org/gettinginvolved will be editable by anyone who as authenticated with OpenID.