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 [...]

Upgrading to Ubuntu 9.04 Beta

Published in March 30th, 2009

Posted by Tom in jauntyjackalope, ubuntunews

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On March 26 Ubuntu 9.04 Beta was released. I installed it on my main desktop system as soon as it was available, so I’ve been running it for a few days now. If you’re interested in trying out this beta release, remember that it’s intended for testing and not mission-critical systems. The release candidate is [...]

Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope” Announced

Published in September 10th, 2008

Posted by Tom in jauntyjackalope, ubuntunews

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Now that the feature freeze for Ubuntu 8.10 is on, planning has begun for the next version: Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope”. The Warrior Rabbit is our talisman as we move into a year where we can reasonably expect Ubuntu to ship on several million devices, to consumers who can reasonably expect the software experience to [...]