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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. "M" is for Moronic by R2.0 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Or "Masturbating Misanthrope"

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  2. You have to be fucking joking by freddy_dreddy · · Score: -1, Troll

    A new version of this crap OS comes out and the fosstards are lulling about the name. Exactly 1 thread on speed ("Speed is important").

    One more time before I split: Desktop Linux isn't free, it's worthless.

    Bye dickheads, bye /. Wank away.

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  3. Re:The translation of this name by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    So the full name of the release is "I am an idiot and cannot configure Debian, version I'm so rich I've gone to space so I can name this whatever the fuck I feel like."

  4. Desktop/Web Convergence by SuseLover · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'll take my desktop separate from the web thank you. As if active desktop wasn't bad enough, when will they learn.

  5. Am I missing something ... by w0mprat · · Score: 0, Troll

    Or did they skip 'I' in the alphabetical naming of Ubuntu releases: Edgy Eft Feisty Fawn Gutsy Gibbon Hardy Heron I.... I...? Jaundiced Jackeroo or whatever it is.. Intrepid Iguana? Inconsolable Iriomote?

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  6. Atheros AR5212 by Robowally · · Score: -1, Troll

    I just hope they fix the non-working Atheros AR5212 wireless. Or I shall have to return my kids laptop back to XP :-(

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