Yeah, I'm a few days late on this. Heck, Dell had launched the systems on Thursday. Actually, this hasn't been too new, as Dell have been selling Red Hat equipped servers for some time (And they even have their own customized Yum repositories for hardware-specific drivers). But this is a very good sign for Linux (and other open source systems) when Dell is willing to sell systems with Ubuntu 7.04 preinstalled!
read more »The next version of Ubuntu is finally out! Now to download it and check it out on a virtual machine. Later on, I'll attempt to do the upgrade process on the install that's on my main desktop then my laptop.
It also seems the Ubuntu website is getting hit by some pretty serious traffic, so it seems to be switching between a holding page that lists the mirrors that you can download the ISOs from and the original site.