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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:upgraded yesterday by rite_m · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Love the new notification system (NotifyOSD)

  2. Re:blah by BlackCreek · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I second that. Eclipse can be a mess, downloading and installing it directly is, by far, the best option.

    I have a bunch of co-workers using Eclipse and Ubuntu. Nobody even considers using the Ubuntu distributed version. The age of this bug should make it clear how much attention Eclipse gets in Ubuntu https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eclipse/+bug/81900

    I was going to say that for Java development you are normally better off by downloading and setting up everything yourself, but I guess that is also true for all other programming languages. At least I did that also when developing with Python.

  3. Re:Gotta upgrade to 8.10 first by Jamamala · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you're really determined though, you can always use ksplice to patch, and avoid rebooting.
    One more thing Linux has on Windows.

  4. doesn't even boot by speedtux · · Score: 3, Interesting

    9.04 doesn't even boot on my laptop (an HP DV2, some kind of SATA driver problem).

    Furthermore, I can't figure out where to report this. What's the point of having a beta or an RC if it's difficult for users to give feedback?