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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. Then what is "Intrepid?" by geminidomino · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Came across what I assumed was a "Head-branch" style repo called "intrepid" last night looking for updated nvidia drivers, I figured "Intrepid $animal" would be the next version.

  2. What happened to "I"? by kaos07 · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Ubuntu goes alphabetically does it now? ...Feisty Fawn, Gutsy Gibbon, Hardy Heron... Jaunty Jackalope? Where's the I!?!?