The feature freeze for Ubuntu 9.10 has been in effect for a while now, so it’s time for the next Ubuntu release to be announced. Mark Shuttleworth has done this speaking to UbuCon at the Atlanta Linux Fest. The video of the announcement is from YouTube is embedded below. In the video the code name [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Yesterday I finally got up to date and installed Ubuntu 8.10 on my desktop. Other than some slow software mirrors, everything has gone smoothly. It’s a good idea to download new Ubuntu releases from BitTorrent to get the fastest download and ease the load on the servers. I found the official list of torrent downloads [...]

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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 [...]

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