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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."

8 of 180 comments (clear)

  1. Let me be the first to ask.... by ControversialMatt · · Score: 5, Funny

    What the heck is a Jackalope?

    1. Re:Let me be the first to ask.... by mrdoogee · · Score: 5, Funny

      Wrong! It's a mix between Hugh Jackman and a Cantaloupe.

    2. Re:Let me be the first to ask.... by jo42 · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm still waiting for the "Gracious Goatse" release of Unbuntu.

  2. A jackalope is... by spinochet · · Score: 5, Informative

    a rabbit with antlers.

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  3. Intel regressions not yet solved by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Users of Intel video chipsets have reported performance regressions in Ubuntu 8.10 compared with previous releases. (252094) Although these performance issues have not been resolved by default in Ubuntu 9.04, a new experimental acceleration architecture option, DRI2/UXA, is available for Intel graphics users. Our testing has found this provides significant performance improvements for many users, but has also shown risk of severe stability problems, thus we are not yet providing to the general public. You can opt-in to enable this by running "sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf", and adding Option "AccelMethod" "UXA" to the Device section of your xorg.conf. Users wishing to maximize stability should stay with the standard default acceleration method, "EXA".

  4. 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.

  5. Re:Wrong color desktop? Re:Screenshots by migla · · Score: 5, Informative

    I thought they'd change the brown in 9.10, Karmic Koala. Shuttleworths announcement of KK: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2009-February/000536.html

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  6. Re:So by GMFTatsujin · · Score: 5, Funny

    Worst haiku ever.