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Ubuntu 9 Is Jaunty Jackalope, Coming Next April

Posted by timothy on from the good-eatin'-if-you-can-catch-'em dept.

mr_3ntropy writes "Ars is reporting Mark Shuttleworth announced today that Ubuntu 9.04 will be called Jaunty Jackalope, to be released next April. It will focus on improving boot times and the convergence of desktop and web. The 8.10 release, Intrepid Ibex, is coming next month with GNOME 2.24 and will include better support for subnotebooks."

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  1. Why is this important? by yohanes · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's just a name.

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    1. Re:Why is this important? by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 1, Informative

      Yeah, yeah Freedom of Speach, yada yada.

      Freedom of Speech only applies with respect to the Government, not private entities.
      From: First Amendment

      The First Amendment of the United States Constitution protects the right to freedom of religion and freedom of expression from government interference.

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    2. Re:Why is this important? by zsau · · Score: 2, Informative

      Surprisingly, that's actually a remarkably bad idea. Users are not usability experts. They're also really really nice people. Once they've found out how to do something (on their own or aided), they'll think its their fault and they'll tell you want a nice system you've really got and how they'd be quite happy to use it. That is, unless you're unfortunate enough to get a bunch of geeks to be your participants. Not because there's anything wrong with geeks, but because geeks aren't the target of (Ubuntu/Gnome's) usability studies.

      Usability studies must be monitored by a trained expert, and their review of a user's behavior and recommendations based on that is much more important. If you think I'm wrong, for you and your friends at least, then you might be right, for you and your friends: but you're geeks and you have different priorities.

      And as for faster startup times, the last thing you want to do is to frustrate users by making them wait to begin with. Us geeks have worked out methods of getting around this: we leave our computers on or suspend them whenever we can; we go get breakfast or have a shower or perform other aspects of our morning ritual when that's not an option. But for people who the computer isn't an important part of their life, their not going to do these things. The chance of them using their computer is going to be related to the startup speed of their computer,

      (I'm also not sure what the "Windows way" of copying a file to another directory is. I can think of at least three, and I don't use Windows that often. Probably there's more.)

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  2. Re:What I want to know is by lolocaust · · Score: 5, Informative

    17 represents the year 2017. 2017-2004=13, because the original release was in 2004. 13x2=26, because releases are every 6 months, i.e. twice a year.

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  3. Re:Jackalope? by Tubal-Cain · · Score: 2, Informative

    A laval newt.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt

  4. Re:What I want to know is by Prefader · · Score: 2, Informative

    In Ubuntu, there are more than two releases per year.

    Really? Since I've been using it, there's only been 2 per year - the x.04 (April), and x.10 (October) releases. This has been the case since Hoary (4.10?), as far as I know.

  5. Re:What I want to know is by rmccann · · Score: 2, Informative

    The first ubuntu release, 4.10 was warty warthog. there never was an 'a' release

  6. Re:What I want to know is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    ...what the hell are they going to do after 26 releases?

    Dr. Seuss already solved this one On Beyond Zebra

  7. Re:What I want to know is by mhall119 · · Score: 3, Informative

    But that's like, what, 5 releases?

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  8. Re:What I want to know is by mhall119 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, Ubuntu never had an A, B or C named release, they started alphabetical order with Dapper Drake. They've also already used W (Warty Warthog) and repeated H (Hoary Hedgehog and Hardy Heron).

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  9. Re:What I want to know is by petermgreen · · Score: 2, Informative

    You're forgetting Breezy Badger though there was indeed no A or C named release.

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  10. Re:What I want to know is by MrFlannel · · Score: 3, Informative

    Only LTS releases will get point releases, but they're not really "releases" just refreshes of the ISOs, it's nothing meaningful as far as installed systems are concerned (I guess it's useful for setting milestone goals or something, but that's not technical). They take the updated packages, throw them on the CD so you don't have to download as many updates after you install.
    Having an installed system that you updated completely the day the images were released* would leave you with the same system.

    And while we're being thorough they're offset by three months, so January an August.

    See http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/146 for more information (including fancy pictures).

    * It's likely a day or two before release, whenever the images are created, yadda yadda.

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