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

    But that's like, what, 5 releases?

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  4. 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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  5. 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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