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- 4DFX, on 04/22/2009, -2/+50CentOS also sucks ass when it comes to a user-friendly desktop.
- merdok, on 04/22/2009, -0/+37Only HOURS to go!!! Getting excited!!! (perhaps a little TOO excited - being single sucks)
- skinturtle, on 04/22/2009, -1/+36It's funny..I really do like Ubuntu....but for alot of us it really is a hobby. We install the lastest version of Ubuntu then sit for hours trying to get this and that to work (because we love to) and then once it's working..all we use it for is to come to DIGG and tell everyone how great it is.
One day however...some of the major software vendors are going to port their apps to Linux and then the story will change. For instance if Photoshop is ever ported to Linux to use in Ubuntu...the others will follow suit and then MS will really have a reason to be worried.
- FlareHeart, on 04/22/2009, -1/+36I didn't like the slowness of Kubuntu 8.10 so I stayed with 8.04. However, this new 9.04 works wonderfully! It's amazing! I am very impressed with the new version.
- HonoredMule, on 04/22/2009, -0/+29Don't worry, you can just install 9.04 the day before 9.10 comes out.
- sadrobot, on 04/22/2009, -0/+28installed this on my eeepc last night. i had heard they improved netbook support, but i was amazed to find that everything worked straight off...even the function keys! it's nice to not have to rely on a custom distro anymore
- johnboyholmes, on 04/22/2009, -3/+26Thanks for letting me know that Linux is for servers. I must have missed the memo, best I pop home now and delete it off my netbook and home theatre PC...
- ha3er0, on 06/16/2009, -0/+22"Digg.com's Matt Cutts" ?
WTF!
Matt works for Google, the story of the video on his blog was on digg.com. DUH! - jorisb, on 04/22/2009, -4/+26I just realized the names are alphabetical since version 5.10. What happened to C (clever crocodile?)
Also, in case you didn't know, the versions are year.month in which it was released.
5.10 Breezy Badger
6.06 Dapper Drake
6.10 Edgy Eft
7.04 Feisty Fawn
7.10 Gutsy Gibbon
8.04 Hardy Heron
8.10 Intrepid Ibex
9.04 Jaunty Jackalope
9.10 Karmic Koala - ohplease, on 04/22/2009, -0/+21CentOS is just debadged Redhat, which is mainly server focused, so no surprise there.
- strangeman, on 04/22/2009, -0/+19To everyone who plans to install this on an Atom powered netbook:
Make sure you install the LPIA version of Ubuntu. It is compiled specifically for the low power intel architecture. You will notice great speed and battery life improvements!
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/9.04/rc/ - Vadi0, on 04/22/2009, -1/+17Will be upgrading soon...
- anexanhume, on 04/22/2009, -3/+17Dugg for ubuntu release codenames.
- DontThinkSo, on 04/22/2009, -0/+12They can choose from GTK or Qt, neither of which are going anywhere anytime soon.
- say592, on 04/22/2009, -0/+11Please dont speak if you havent the slightest idea what you are talking about.
- zach382, on 04/23/2009, -0/+11Did you fall out of a Star Trek episode?
- tbrotherofasis, on 04/22/2009, -0/+11Love Ubuntu! Love Linux!
- srg13, on 04/23/2009, -0/+11Beryl stopped being developed two years ago...
- sigmaman2, on 04/22/2009, -5/+15Article is over a week old, and Jaunty comes out tomorrow. Sorry, got to bury you.
- vinetari, on 04/22/2009, -0/+10Can't wait for Whimsical Whale :D
- Keithamus, on 04/22/2009, -0/+9Small, one man band open source projects, for example Gnome Do can release a project which works on thousands of machines.
Adobe, who have millions to spend on R&D, thousands of engineers experienced in QT (KDEs native toolkit, and what Adobe Photoshop & family are written in), and have a massive userbase of willing beta testers, as well as the budget to hire anyone in the kernel team. They can't release atleast photoshop elements or something?
No, the only reason Adobe don't port anything is because of pure unadulterated greed.
Btw, in terms of API, Linux has QT, ImageMagik and OpenGL. There are three relevant apis which work and come with pretty much every distro (or can atleast be installed). - SchrodingersCar, on 04/22/2009, -9/+18The biggest running problem with Ubuntu presently is the generally sloppy ReL state execution when it comes to OpenGrind or PSSt. I sideline as a GradR (xtr-based mostly) developer during my downtime and If you really get deep into the WR achitecture of the 5AID kernel (Not 5AID 2.0 - it's up to snuff - for now) it starts to return far too many zero values when you run JUSSreg (even with the linker set to null). But I guess I'm just asking for too much?
- TetchyTony, on 04/22/2009, -0/+9First Ubuntu release that has *ever* run my Toshiba (Aetheros) WiFi *and* kept it going after a kernel upgrade. Everything works. If it goes on like this I may even risk a dual boot instead of switching HDDs.
- strangeman, on 04/22/2009, -0/+8You will be surprised by the new release. It is unbelievably fast. The last release just sucked in terms of speed (compared to the one before that) but jaunty takes it to a whole new level.
I installed the LPIA (low power intel architecture) version on my Aspire One and it is really fast. Both in booting and actually working with it. - tnoy, on 04/23/2009, -0/+8ctrl-f2
update-manager -d
Click Upgrade
follow the rest of the buttons (I don't remember what they all say off the top of my head) - smrekar, on 04/22/2009, -1/+9Here, let me fix that for you:
Sup Dawg, I heard you like CentOS, so we put a CentOS in your Ubuntu so you can boot while you boot. - willrs, on 04/22/2009, -0/+8I dugg you up because it appears you know what your talking about.
- geoken, on 04/22/2009, -0/+7With that kind of boot speed I would almost consider saving some power by shutting down my computer once in a while.
- FortyCaliber, on 04/22/2009, -1/+8Package as many drivers as possible into the distros
Make Sharing easier... I tried to share a printer with a Mac and my PC... the worst Jerry, THE WORST! - nuclearwasted, on 04/23/2009, -0/+7What? They do package as many drivers as possible with the distros. Look at the kernel src config one day. There's so many drivers it's not even funny. They probably don't include nearly all of them as compiled modules but... do you really need 1-wire-bus and a cd-rom that plugs into your sound card & only does 1x?
- asshankie, on 04/22/2009, -3/+10Sir, I have no idea what you're talking about. But my blind, nonsensical love for Ubuntu means you get buried!
UBUNTU FTW! - nutmac, on 04/22/2009, -0/+7The link to Matt Cutts is a DiggBar short URL link. I guess the author thought Matt works for Digg as a result.
- shitdrummer, on 04/23/2009, -0/+6You mean you hadn't seen a patern forming before Karmic Koala was announced?
:p - icekid, on 04/22/2009, -0/+6I can wait to get my hands on the Cds
- Rudegar, on 04/22/2009, -1/+7is this a designer or web-designer thing or something because photoshop always comes up and gimp is never as good
i can manage to put photos from celebrities on pr0n pics even in paint
think there are many other programs which would come first if people in corporate world would want to switch - inactive, on 04/22/2009, -0/+5Time is not right, there is about 6-8 seconds of BIOS. Boot sequence starts after the BIOS is done.
- spritom, on 04/22/2009, -0/+5*has a geekgasm*
- bratterscain, on 04/22/2009, -3/+8Such fanboys in here that even Linux devs are dug down when they say what could use improved. I think you'd have to go to /. where they understand programming problems more. Digg is the Britney Spears and bubblegum pop of social sites.
- hansrodtang, on 04/22/2009, -1/+6LTR? It is LTS (Long Term Support).
- huff51, on 04/23/2009, -0/+5tnoy meant to say alt+f2
- Culyt, on 04/23/2009, -0/+5Don't forget:
4.10 Warty Warthog
5.04 Hoary Hedgehog - tech42er, on 04/23/2009, -0/+5The DiggBar strikes again! Engadget wasn't kidding when they said how important URL's are.
- or3n, on 04/23/2009, -0/+5You can do an upgrade; you don't have to clean install to get 9.04. :)
- BroWren, on 04/22/2009, -0/+4Is that the African or the European version of the 5AID kernel? And you're running it unladen, right?
- cannonball, on 04/23/2009, -0/+4which eeepc do you have?
- toxicityj, on 04/23/2009, -0/+4fear not! I'm not single and I'm excited.
- KerrAvon, on 04/22/2009, -0/+4I think this is the one:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver- ... - MrTea, on 04/23/2009, -0/+4why not just get the iso from a torrent?
- pip182, on 04/22/2009, -0/+4apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
so hard isnt it? - bretkuhns, on 04/23/2009, -0/+4I've got Intel graphics on my laptop and have been running the RC for about a week. I haven't noticed any problems. I use my laptop at work for hours at a time and haven't had a single lock up. So far Jaunty has been an awesome upgrade over Intrepid!
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