Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope Now In Beta

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."

Comments

Re:Screenshots

[AvitarX]

You can see the new wallpaper anyway.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubuntu-9-04-Beta-Screenshot-Tour-107809.shtml

Re:It's a beta..

[jdgeorge]

I don't see any reason to make a huge deal about any "new" Linux release.

Well, two things:
1. Yeah, that's the kind of news only Nerds would care about! Can't they find an appropriate forum for that?
2. This is not about a new "Linux" release. It's about a new Ubuntu beta. By contrast, This is a story about a new Linux release.

Re:What you should be asking...

[Nevyn]

Or not. The quote says "we are creeping towards $30 million" and that this would make Canonical "self-sustaining", for regular updates, which is their current model of very little development and a lot of marketing.

So, yeh, it's possible that "creeping towards" does actually mean "really close to, and getting closer every day" and not just "going from 1 to 2 million this year". But I bet against that, personally.

And who is paying that $30 mil, is it desktop people ... or self supporting server users like the French govt. / Wikipedia. My guess is that any money is coming from the later.

So at the end of the creep towards $30 mil, what do you get? Still not enough money to fund actual development (feel free to log bugs and RFEs at bugzilla.redhat.com), and a focus on servers instead of the desktop for what little work they do (because that's who is paying).