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Ubuntu 9.04 RC Released

Posted by timothy on from the delicious-candy dept.

Mohamed Zaian writes "The Ubuntu team has released the release candidate for Ubuntu 9.04; 'The Ubuntu team is happy to bring you the latest and greatest software the Open Source community has to offer. This is their latest result, the Ubuntu 9.04 release candidate, which brings a host of excellent new features.' The various other Ubuntu-derived distributions, like Kubuntu, have also had their RCs released."

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  1. Re:Gotta upgrade to 8.10 first by tpgp · · Score: 3, Funny

    And that means rebooting.

    Erm? Why is a reboot a problem?

    Do you run Ubuntu on your server? (In which case, why would you be considering a Release Candidate?)

    Or do you never reboot your home PC? (Surely you can afford a scheduled reboot overnight when you're sleeping).

    Or are you just after uptime bragging rights? (That's really a bit sad on a home computer that isn't under heavy load)

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  2. Re:Gotta upgrade to 8.10 first by QuantumG · · Score: 2, Funny

    Takes effort to startup the programs that I keep running all the time on it.

    Takes more effort to script them so I don't have to spend effort starting them up on every reboot.

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  3. ubuntu gets best practices paradigms-as-a-service! by gandhi_2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    FeatureList-> here

    Among the features are "cloud computing" and "turn-key" email servers. *groan*. You guys have been saying "linux needs an advertising dept"...well this is what happens.

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  4. Re:Gotta upgrade to 8.10 first by tpgp · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ubuntu is linux-based, not Windows. We're not used to rebooting all the time.

    Every 18 months is not "all the time".

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  5. Re:Gotta upgrade to 8.10 first by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Takes effort to startup the programs that I keep running all the time on it.

    Your Porn Torrents?

  6. Re:Gotta upgrade to 8.10 first by QuantumG · · Score: 3, Funny

    no, they restart automatically.. I mean, hey! I don't have any...........

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  7. eyes...eyes by choseph · · Score: 2, Funny

    Isn't that "beauty lies in the cockles of the beholder" or "beauty lies to the beholder to escape its paralyzing glare"? Oh, eyes of the beholder, that's it.

  8. Re:Gotta upgrade to 8.10 first by physicsphairy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Takes effort to startup the programs that I keep running all the time on it. Takes more effort to script them so I don't have to spend effort starting them up on every reboot.

    How did you ever get Linux on your system in the first place?

    My present hypothesis is that your system crashed and the Ubuntu CD was marginally closer to your workstation than the Windows reinstall disk.

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  9. Just upgraded! by radimvice · · Score: 2, Funny

    I just finished my upgrade. Everything seems to be running great, stability is rock solid, no probl

  10. Re:Gotta upgrade to 8.10 first by ozphx · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah thats why I tend to keep all my notes in OneNote. *ducks*

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