news.softpedia.com — What's new in Ubuntu/Kubuntu 9.04 RC? Well, not much has changed since the beta release, only various software updates and many bugfixes. This Release Candidate has the brand new GNOME 2.26.1 desktop environment, which brings lots of fixes and a few improvements.
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xeroxenithApr 17, 2009
@peestandingup: yes, perhaps. However as stated, it *will* be fixed before the final release, and that's what matters. Don't judge a final by the RC...
svensksvampApr 17, 2009
Haha. true. although I still cringe when I use XP =)
jjustin01Apr 18, 2009
There doesn't have to be watermarks. There's a ton of jQuery lightbox slide shows available. Hell, spend about an hour of time and write a custom one if you want. Either way, there's no need to click on a screen shot and then close the window/tab and click on another, close window/tab, etc. It's called UI design 101.
bahmak2004Apr 18, 2009
most hp printers are supported in ubuntu. no cd drivers needed.
randaiiApr 19, 2009
Yeah I do. ubuntu just takes and takes from the linux community. Ubuntu hasn't come up with one thing on their own. Redhad debian,suse, slack all have done great things to help the linux community ubuntu hasn't. f**k ubuntu and its greedy ass. also f**k the arrogant users that think that ubuntu is the only distro and bag on others for using something different. all ubuntu has made is a bad user base.
culytApr 19, 2009
AFAIK your not supposed to dist-upgrade. update-manager does a bit more than just a pull in new packages.
oobuntuApr 21, 2009
i use 8.10 every day for 10 hours a day in heavy usage and it has been fine stability-wise except for some firefox, evolution crashes, nvidia (facebook/java sites slow scrolling in firefox) and intel bugs (a few wireless and gfx driver bugs) that are frustrating . too many bugs are still outstanding unfortunately (looking at you, intel). I've already upgraded to 9.04 on my work PC last week, and the upgrade went silky smooth.
hiroApr 22, 2009
I certainly wouldn't want XP on it, that would be a very definite backward step! 8.10 works great on mine, I was just remarking that I wanted to see how straightforward the upgrade to 9.04 would be before I do it. I don't have the SSD version so that could be your problem, I have read of some. But XP? <shudders>
strupatnApr 23, 2009
You will probably have problems with Flash performance. It is the last thing holding me back from switching entirely to Ubuntu.
truck87bpApr 25, 2009
What I thought was way kewl was under System Administration its has an Option to install it directly to a Flash Drive. It also has some new hard drive features. It also has WUBI for installing inside a Windows System. This stuff is way cool.