Ubuntu Desktop 2012.04

[Kalle Vahlman]

The 2012.04 Ubuntu Desktop release from Linaro and Igloo Community is
now available for download at

  http://releases.linaro.org/12.04/ubuntu/leb-snowball/

Please follow the instructions there for installing the image on an
microSD card.

You can also get an image that can be flashed to the internal memory from

  http://igloocommunity.org/download/linaro/images/2012.04/

The images are compressed to save download time. Please see the
Flashing howto for installation instructions for the prebuilt image
for the internal memory:

  http://www.igloocommunity.org/support/Flashing_howto

The Linaro release page can be found at

  https://wiki.linaro.org/Cycles/1204/Release

Sources for all free components in the release are available from the
Igloo Gitweb:

  http://www.igloocommunity.org/gitweb/

You can also get the sources, as well as updates, from the Snowball
PPA repository:

  https://launchpad.net/~igloocommunity-maintainers/+archive/snowball

A full list of bugs fixed for this release is available at

  https://launchpad.net/igloocommunity/+milestone/2012.04

As with all the other Linaro targets, this release switches over to
the armhf architecture. All included packages are built with the
hard-float ABI and thus are not interchangeable with previous
releases.

NOTE: Due to build problems, GPS support is not included in this
release. Packages will be made available from the Snowball PPA as soon
as possible, so that installing the support will be possible.

Main supported features

  * Based on Linux 3.3.0 and the Linaro Ubuntu desktop file system
  * Uses the hard-float ABI for enhanced use of the VFP unit
  * HDMI/DVI-D display support
  * Graphics acceleration with the Mali 400 GPU (see known limitations)
  * Bluetooth support (see known limitations)
  * Ethernet and Wireless connectivity
  * Sensors support (accelerometer, magnetometer, gyroscope, barometer)
  * microSD card support
  * Audio playback (see known limitations)

Features to be included in future releases

 * GPS support
 * Multimedia acceleration

Known limitations

 * Some programs crash due to Mali libraries when exiting
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/igloocommunity/+bug/986020
 * USB OTG host mode is working only in a limited fashion:
   http://www.igloocommunity.org/support/Work-around_for_USB-Host_issue
 * Pulseaudio by default does not work well with the Snowball audio
driver, resulting in choppy playback. There is a work-around described
in the comment #1 of
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/igloocommunity/+bug/939593
 * Bluetooth file transfers have problems
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/igloocommunity/+bug/974272
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/igloocommunity/+bug/987222

Please report any further issues with this image at the Igloo
Community launchpad project. For details about it please see:

  http://www.igloocommunity.org/support/Bug_tracking

-- 
Kalle Vahlman, Movial Creative Technologies Inc.
Porkkalankatu 20, FI-00180 Helsinki
Tel +358 9 8567 6400
Fax +358 9 8567 6401
www.movial.com