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Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope Now In Beta

Posted by kdawson on from the your-netbook-will-thank-you dept.

An anonymous reader writes "To little fanfare and not much news coverage, Canonical released the beta of Ubuntu 9.04 'Jaunty Jackalope.' I tried it on a Dell Mini 9 using the Ubuntu Netbook Remix (UNR) and it's fabulous! Much better than the sad 'Dell Desktop' that it shipped with. Finally, someone has broken the 25+ year old too-many-open-windows-and-chaos desktop paradigm with UNR's task oriented layout, which is perfect for small netbook screen sizes."

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  1. Wrong color desktop? Re:Screenshots by Hadlock · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I thought they "fixed" the brown desktop theme? There are blue desktop screenshots but that's for KDE or some such.

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  2. What you should be asking... by WindBourne · · Score: 2, Insightful

    what happens if *ubuntu becomes profitable? Most likely means that at least one major monopoly has been broken, and a number of truly competitive markets have been created.

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