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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. Re:It's a beta.. by jdgeorge · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.