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- pHr34kY, on 03/19/2009, -3/+93I spotted this when I turned my machine on this morning - but I didn't for one second think it was worth blogging about.
- dcramps, on 03/19/2009, -11/+100Wow, a 27 second video of a loading bar. How interesting!
(and people say Vista loads slow) - renegadeafk, on 03/19/2009, -0/+78That is the most retarded place for a watermark I have ever seen Are you ***** serious softpedia?
- rchargel, on 03/19/2009, -3/+68As I a linux and ubuntu (at times) user, I can honestly say that I don't care.
- NobodyWhoCares, on 03/19/2009, -0/+50Most likely in a virtual machine, as you won't be able to run recording software while it's booting...
9.04 along with EXT4 boots stupidly fast.
But agreed.. silly thing to make "news" out of, let alone a video. - bumcheekcity, on 03/19/2009, -6/+56HOLY MOTHER OF GOD A LINE THAT MOVES FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WHAT ON EARTH WILL WE DO ALERT THE PRESSES THIS IS AMAZING ***** THE RIAA
- motang, on 03/18/2009, -5/+46Don't see much difference from the current one...but it's cool.
- KennMac, on 03/19/2009, -3/+34Anyone have screens of the the splashscreen that don't have SOFTPEDIA watermarked right across it? What a stupid problem.
- DeathRay2K, on 03/19/2009, -1/+30It barely changed, I can't believe this is on the front page!
- inactive, on 03/19/2009, -1/+27Softpedia should just put a big watermark over their entire website
- jamesey, on 03/18/2009, -14/+39I can't believe that gets me excited, but it does
- m3mn0n, on 03/19/2009, -2/+23I can't really tell, but I think you're being sarcastic.
- inactive, on 03/19/2009, -0/+21Needs more caps.
- computershack, on 03/19/2009, -2/+21"And the new loading bar has a futuristic effect."
WTF is that, the fact that it's not text or in 640x480 VGA mode? - archer75, on 03/19/2009, -4/+22Wow, a new splash screen. This is truly the year of the linux desktop!
- TsuruchiBrian, on 03/19/2009, -0/+18I can't believe I am watching a video simulating what it would be like to wait for an operating system that is not even released yet to boot.
- maci01, on 03/19/2009, -2/+19Its part of the new boot screen.
- derekmas10, on 03/19/2009, -1/+1827 seconds of *****
- fluxion, on 03/19/2009, -0/+15i doubt they spent all that much time on this
- Manther, on 03/19/2009, -0/+14Should have added a 'ZOMG'
- sigmaman2, on 03/19/2009, -1/+15"Do you have anything to say, Ambassador from the Neutral Planet?"
"I have no strong feelings either way." - jjustin01, on 03/19/2009, -2/+15that is so underwhelming. they changed the damn status bar!
- benbrooks101, on 03/19/2009, -0/+12Who actually needs to put a watermark on an image of somebody elses work (the bootscreen) anyway?
- ultrafez, on 03/19/2009, -0/+11Dugg for ***** THE RIAA
- MrViklund, on 03/19/2009, -16/+27WOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWW! NEW BOOT SPLASH! BROWNBUNTU IS AMAAAAZZZZZZZZZZZZIING! I MUST DOWNLOAD RIGHT AWAY!!! I HAVE NVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT! SCREW WINDOWS 7! THIS BOOT SPLASH IS AMAZING!!!
- FrankNL, on 03/19/2009, -7/+17"Softpedia is once again the first website to offer you a preview of the new artwork, which will probably be present in the final release of Ubuntu 9.04."
Well, good for you, Softpedia. Thanks for making the world a better place. - someone31988, on 03/19/2009, -0/+10It says right below it that it's running in VirtualBox. Of course it's gonna be slow.
- jknevitt, on 03/19/2009, -0/+10"Tell my wife, "Hello.""
- quenturi, on 03/19/2009, -0/+10That is some news.
Took what, 4 years to display a progress bar 1 mm high instead of mammoth sized bar. By the way, how about something different to display a progression ? Progress bars are not the ONLY way to tell the user something's happening.
Is it still screwed when adding vga=xxxx to menu.lst ? That would be something. - Sentinel, on 03/19/2009, -3/+12This may be the single most boring and lame "news story" I've ever seen submitted to Digg.
- DreadKnight, on 03/19/2009, -0/+9I am an ubuntu user, but Fedora's Plymouth boot splash screen is way more impressive http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBheUFaRnr8
- morcheeba, on 03/19/2009, -0/+9What, you don't like the new futuristic effect?! Just watching that makes me feel like putting on my robot costume, stepping in to my time machine, and going back to the year 2010 to scare some truck driver in the middle of nowhere.
- TeaForTillerman, on 03/19/2009, -2/+11Vista boots a lot slower, but what they do is load while showing you the desktop.... please think before commenting, it would make a world of difference.
- enlligghtenment, on 03/18/2009, -10/+18Very nice.... Canonical is doing a good job :)
- motang, on 03/19/2009, -0/+8Yep, that is why are called geeks/nerds! :)
- Jibberwalk, on 03/19/2009, -1/+9I think Ubuntu fanboys are worse than MS or even Apple fanboys. They give the rest of the GNU/Linux crowd a bad name.
It's a loading screen. A loading. Screen. - Protoss, on 03/19/2009, -1/+8I don't mean to nitpick, but Ubuntu's 'version number' is actually just the year, followed by the month. ;)
- fluxion, on 03/19/2009, -0/+7"What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?"
- Heilige, on 03/19/2009, -2/+9Poople get excited over the smallest things, I mean seriously, it's just a new picture and only minimally different!
- munikho, on 03/19/2009, -2/+9Looking better, but waiting for Plymouth!!!
- RaulMuadDib, on 03/19/2009, -5/+12It's the same thing! Doesn't anybody notice this? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills! They done nothing! NOTHIIIING! And I will be a monkey's uncle if I let you ruin this for me.
- DomZy, on 03/19/2009, -0/+7They've added a gradient? They could at least add that uslash thing that remembers how long the last boot took, so the bar moving at a constant speed giving you more indication of how long it's actually going to take!
- inactive, on 03/19/2009, -0/+6No, geeks and nerds get excited over real technical or visual achievements, neither of which apply in this case.
- obliviousfool, on 03/19/2009, -0/+6I'd be happier if they worked on detecting applicable video modes for installation. Ubuntu is the one distro I always run into video mode quirks with. It isn't a problem for me, but I can see how it would turn off lots of potential users.
- inactive, on 03/19/2009, -2/+8Yeah, but for the love of all things holy, can they NOT make it stretch when on a widescreen monitor? I mean WTF? It's 2009.
- FXNGLAS, on 03/19/2009, -3/+9Same here. I can't believe something this stupid made it to the front page. =/
- 4DFX, on 03/19/2009, -0/+6I don't understand why they had to change usplash right before switching to Plymouth. I'm pretty sure they could've spent that time working on more important issues.
- Kossic, on 03/19/2009, -0/+6did I just watch a video of someone else' computer booting up?
- Protoss, on 03/19/2009, -0/+6Going back...to the future?!
- ethos101, on 03/19/2009, -0/+6This is how we win over Mac users.
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