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Ubuntu 9 Is Jaunty Jackalope, Coming Next April
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."
Im a fan of Ubuntu, but if its still running in 2017 in its current format without being replaced at the top, I'd be really worried about the lack of competition in the free software movement.
If you're doing almost exactly one release per year, it's actually not at all bad as a naming convention.
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I was looking forward to Jumping Jackass; with some work to make it leaner and shed some of the bloat.
Because the name is juvenile flamebait? The creator of the distro isn't a Satanist, and neither are the posters on his board. The only reason to name it thusly is to irritate a group of people pointlessly. Yeah, yeah Freedom of Speach, yada yada. It doesn't mean that Distro Watch has to give a crap about your distro either.
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Have you never visited Bash? It's proof that you don't need to be a genius to use IRC.
How is it that one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?
Because the name is juvenile flamebait? The creator of the distro isn't a Satanist, and neither are the posters on his board. The only reason to name it thusly is to irritate a group of people pointlessly
Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't that the whole point of satanism? I was under the impression that satanism (as told by Anton LaVey)was the father of flamebait, something to do with getting your message heard through scandal and gossip? That the group doesn't necessarily follow satanism doesn't make the goal any less satanic; I know plenty of people associated with other religons that don't follow said religon, hell (no pun intended) most people aren't aware of anything beyond the basic tenants of their faith (at least with regard to said faith). I don't know about this banning or why it happened, but if it's because of what you suggest the argument seems pretty weak.
Sometimes, life itself is sarcasm...
If you're doing almost exactly one release per year, it's actually not at all bad as a naming convention.
At least it works for EA's Madden NFL product.
Canonical, the corporation that owns the Ubuntu distro (ie, Red Hat Inc's and Microsoft's direct competitor), has dropped official support of PowerPC from its work. Which means that PPC architecture versions of Ubuntu are falling behind, even to the point where the kernel in the latest releases cannot boot on PPC machines. PPC isn't just old Macs and powerful dedicated workstations. It's also the main core in many supercomputers, lots of embedded CPU devices, and the Sony PS3. Those machines need more active work to keep Ubuntu working on them.
But PPC is still supported as part of the Ubuntu project as a community effort, which is what Open Source is all about. If you've got some spare cycles, or even better some independently developed PPC code, to help Ubuntu keep running on the PowerPC architecture, please join the people supporting the community distro.
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Fundamentally, a binary package is a set of files to be installed in specific locations. Those specific locations are built into relationships between files, both within packages and between packages. Between packages is an important part of the equation -- it allows the entire system to run a set of shared binary libraries. If every application carried it's own version of gtk or other libraries and didn't share RAM, the modern desktop would be unworkable.
What companies want is a single binary to run on "Linux", the way a single binary runs on "Windows". But it's not just a matter of writing alien, which can convert RPM binary archives into .deb archives. You need binary compatible libraries!
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Rephrasing T.Jefferson. Private entities are free to ignore other religions.
You have the right to speak. Others have the right not to listen.