Ubuntu 9.04 Released

Published in April 26th, 2009

Posted by Tom in jauntyjackalope, ubuntunews

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Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope” is now available! Major new features in this release include:

Boot performance has been improved, even without Ext4 you should notice a speedup.
The slick new notification system is enabled.
The latest version of the GNOME desktop environment is included.
OpenOffice has been updated to version 3.0.
Ext4 filesystems are now supported (but Ext3 is still [...]

3D Acceleration and Compiz Inside VirtualBox Guests

Published in April 8th, 2009

Posted by Tom in software

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Sun has just released the major 2.2 update to their VirtualBox virtualization software. The most exciting new feature in this release is 3D acceleration for Linux guest operating systems! See the changelog for all the new features and fixes.

Install VirtualBox
VirtualBox offers Ubuntu package downloads as well as a software repository from their Linux downloads page. [...]