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Ubuntu 9.04 released

[Posted April 23, 2009 by corbet]

From:  Ubuntu Announcements <noreply-AT-ubuntu.com>
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Subject:  Ubuntu 9.04 released
Date:  Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:53:26 -0700
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The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop and Server
editions and Ubuntu Netbook Remix, continuing Ubuntu's tradition of
integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a
high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution.

Read more about the features of Ubuntu 9.04 in the following press releases:

  Desktop edition    http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-9.04-desktop
  Server edition     http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-9.04-server
  Netbook Remix      http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-9.04-unr

Ubuntu 9.04 will be supported for 18 months on both desktops and servers.
Users requiring a longer support lifetime may choose to continue using
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS rather than upgrading to or installing 9.04.

Ubuntu 9.04 is also the basis for new 9.04 releases of Kubuntu, Xubuntu,
Edubuntu, UbuntuStudio, and Mythbuntu:

        Kubuntu      http://kubuntu.org/news/9.04-release
        Xubuntu      http://xubuntu.org/news/9.04-release
       Edubuntu      http://edubuntu.org/news/9.04-release
      Mythbuntu      http://mythbuntu.org/9.04/release
  Ubuntu Studio      http://ubuntustudio.org/downloads

To Get Ubuntu 9.04
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To download Ubuntu 9.04, or obtain CDs, visit:

  http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu

Users of Ubuntu 8.10 will be offered an automatic upgrade to 9.04 via
Update Manager.  For further information about upgrading, see:

  http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading

As always, upgrades to the latest version of Ubuntu are entirely free of
charge.

We recommend that all users read the release notes, which document
caveats and workarounds for known issues.  They are available at:

  http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/904

Find out what's new in this release with a graphical overview:

  http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/904overview

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Great release, sub par marketing

Posted Apr 23, 2009 14:10 UTC (Thu) by kragil (guest, #34373) [Link]

It is a great release with a lot of cool new features, but I have one very unlikely complain.

Canonicals marketing is not very good.

When Novell and Red Hat release a new version you find all cool new features on their webpages.

Not so for Canonical, for example Dustin Kirkland did an amazing job with screen profiles, where screen essentially becomes the window manager for the Ubuntu server and it displays interesting infos (like EC2 costs, avail. updates, mem usage etc. etc. etc.)
It is very easy to configure and a real win for every Ubuntu server admin.

No word about it on any of their websites. That is kinda funny, because a lot of people say Canonical is mostly great in the marketing department.

Ubuntu 9.04 released

Posted Apr 30, 2009 11:12 UTC (Thu) by rmano (guest, #49886) [Link] (2 responses)

A would-be nice releases, if only it didn't ship with a nasty your-machine-freezes bug for a great deal of Intel graphic chipset users... sometime the fixed date release cycle has "funny" downturns. Fortunately, Ubuntu *did* mention it on the release notes, so no major harm has been done.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/339091

Looking forward to jump to jaunty...

Ubuntu 9.04 released

Posted May 3, 2009 4:27 UTC (Sun) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link] (1 responses)

for most of the cases that I have worked with helping people through, the easy fix seems to be to remove the /etc/X11/x.org config file and let X autodetect everything.

I've helped a half dozen people through this problem and in every case there was some custom tweaking or other modules getting loaded that caused the problem.

all but one of them were fixed by the trivial remove the x.org file fix, that last one was somehow trying to load other video drivers that were no longer needed, uninstalling those drivers fixed the problem

Ubuntu 9.04 released

Posted May 3, 2009 21:12 UTC (Sun) by rmano (guest, #49886) [Link]

No, in this case things are quite different. The bug is there (look at the bug entry), and unfortunately it seems that it is deemed too risky to fix --- giving that a workaround exists, namely, disabling DRI and 3D acceleration.
I am quite apalled by the decision. I will have to stay with the ibex...


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