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."

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Re:What I want to know is

[Azaril]

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.

Re:I agree.. but...

[Blimey85]

Have you never visited Bash? It's proof that you don't need to be a genius to use IRC.

Ubuntu/PPC Community Needed

[Doc Ruby]

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.