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Ubuntu 9.04 Released

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the gentlemen-start-your-torrents dept.

Mohamed Zaian writes "Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, announced today that Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop Edition is free to download from Thursday 23 April. Also announced were the simultaneous releases of Ubuntu 9.04 Server Edition and Ubuntu 9.04 Netbook Remix (UNR). Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop Edition delivers a range of feature enhancements to improve the user experience. Shorter boot speeds, some as short as 25 seconds, ensure faster access to a full computing environment on most desktop, laptop and netbook models. Enhanced suspend-and-resume features also give users more time between charges along with immediate access after hibernation. Intelligent switching between Wi-Fi and 3G environments has been broadened to support more wireless devices and 3G cards, resulting in a smoother experience for most users."

6 of 620 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Still Brown? by EveryNickIsTaken · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ..that doesn't attempt to inspire retching subliminally.

    As if the release name didn't already do that? "Jaunty Jackalope"? Wow. Nice work guys. Way to really try and make Linux go mainstream.

  2. Re:Obligitory by Hurricane78 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And I second that.

    Because I like actually having a choice. Or a settings window. Or anything more than a single button in my app. ^^

    --
    Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
  3. Re:Sweet by westlake · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    You know, for those times when you wanna turn on your laptop for some school or professional work, but have to go get a coffee first

    Or you could you put your laptop into a low power hibernation or stand-by mode that "just works."

  4. Re:Questions from an 8.10 user by tkinnun0 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This is what passes as an "insightful" comment on Slashdot?! Two tired slurs followed by an inane assumption that some random poster on Slashdot is in reality the CEO of Microsoft without any supporting evidence. Where is the insightfulness in that?

  5. Truth Stranger Than Fiction by westlake · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    In the Net Applications webstats Win 7 has a 0.21% share of the global desktop. Linux - all flavors - 0.9%. Operating System Market Share

    Does Ubuntu have 20% of the Linux desktop?

    Net Applications provides services to clients who have no interest in counting licenses or the locked-down corporate desktop - only in hits to pages that reach their target mass-market audience.

    The user for whom the OEM system install has been the gold standard for close on to thirty years.

    That makes Win 7's showing in Beta all the more interesting.

    1. Re:Truth Stranger Than Fiction by westlake · · Score: 0, Flamebait
      not that their numbers are the slightest bit trustworthy

      Linux shines a little brighter here.

      But not by much.

      Linux is flat-lined on the Net Applications charts, always has been. If it was a patient on a respirator, you would pull the plug.

      But even the w3Schools stats show only bare 2% growth in market share for Linux over the past five years.