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Ubuntu 9 Is Jaunty Jackalope, Coming Next April 318

mr_3ntropy writes "Ars is reporting Mark Shuttleworth announced today that Ubuntu 9.04 will be called Jaunty Jackalope, to be released next April. It will focus on improving boot times and the convergence of desktop and web. The 8.10 release, Intrepid Ibex, is coming next month with GNOME 2.24 and will include better support for subnotebooks."
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Ubuntu 9 Is Jaunty Jackalope, Coming Next April

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  • by yohanes ( 644299 ) on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @09:30AM (#24931857) Homepage Journal
    It's just a name.
    • by Shadow_139 ( 707786 ) on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @09:37AM (#24931939)
      Then way is "Ubuntu Satanic edition" Banned from Distrowatch?
      http://ubuntusatanic.org/news/ [ubuntusatanic.org]
      • by martinw89 ( 1229324 ) on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @09:51AM (#24932123)

        Because Ubuntu Christian Edition damned them off Distrowatch?

      • Trademark violation.

      • wow, read up on that one. Quite interesting. I'd love to see this go main page and see distrowatch get some heat for it.

      • by Seraphim_72 ( 622457 ) on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @10:56AM (#24932929)
        Because the name is juvenile flamebait? The creator of the distro isn't a Satanist, and neither are the posters on his board. The only reason to name it thusly is to irritate a group of people pointlessly. Yeah, yeah Freedom of Speach, yada yada. It doesn't mean that Distro Watch has to give a crap about your distro either.
        • by Joe Snipe ( 224958 ) on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @12:46PM (#24934393) Homepage Journal

          Because the name is juvenile flamebait? The creator of the distro isn't a Satanist, and neither are the posters on his board. The only reason to name it thusly is to irritate a group of people pointlessly

          Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't that the whole point of satanism? I was under the impression that satanism (as told by Anton LaVey)was the father of flamebait, something to do with getting your message heard through scandal and gossip? That the group doesn't necessarily follow satanism doesn't make the goal any less satanic; I know plenty of people associated with other religons that don't follow said religon, hell (no pun intended) most people aren't aware of anything beyond the basic tenants of their faith (at least with regard to said faith). I don't know about this banning or why it happened, but if it's because of what you suggest the argument seems pretty weak.

      • Re: (Score:3, Interesting)

        Boot times and web integration????

        It would be nice if they quit making low priority, and at times frankly pointless, changes and concentrated on making it both useful to users and a happy experience. From Gutsy to Hardy the applications presented in the toolbar changed - for no good reason as far as I can see, needlessly confusing users. At the same time basic UI improvements went undone. I was going to remove Evolution for someone until I saw what synaptic said would also need to be removed... choice ap
        • Re: (Score:3, Informative)

          by zsau ( 266209 )

          Surprisingly, that's actually a remarkably bad idea. Users are not usability experts. They're also really really nice people. Once they've found out how to do something (on their own or aided), they'll think its their fault and they'll tell you want a nice system you've really got and how they'd be quite happy to use it. That is, unless you're unfortunate enough to get a bunch of geeks to be your participants. Not because there's anything wrong with geeks, but because geeks aren't the target of (Ubuntu/Gnom

    • If all you read is the headline then yes, that's all the information you'll get.
  • until version 24 comes out....

  • by sleeponthemic ( 1253494 ) on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @09:37AM (#24931937) Homepage

    Hard for new people to take it seriously as an OS when the naming scheme is that out there.

    Stick to product numbers, futuristic ones are the best. For example: Ubuntu 2000. Fucking genius hitech name for the future. Have that name for free. I'm too busy trademarking "hurricane computing".

    • Re: (Score:3, Funny)

      Comment removed based on user account deletion
    • by geminidomino ( 614729 ) * on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @09:42AM (#24931993) Journal

      Stick to product numbers, futuristic ones are the best. For example: Ubuntu 2000. Fucking genius hitech name for the future.

      Hate to tell you this, but 2000 isn't the future anymore. We just got body cavity searches to buy a cup of coffee instead of jetpacks.

    • The codenames are only officially used in development and the names of repositories, both of which will not be seen by "new people". ubuntu.com, the installer, and the default homepage all refer to "Ubuntu 8.04 LTS".

      • Right but when you go to the irc channel to ask for help, then you are going to get confused. I'm running Hardy and when I have a question I can tell people that's what I'm running, but I don't even know what the corresponding version number is, nor have I needed to know that. Also, when you are searching for answers, most if not all of the tutorials I have come across use the codename. They might also use the version number but I haven't noticed if that's the case or not.
    • Re: (Score:3, Interesting)

      by WK2 ( 1072560 )

      I've seen this argument before, and it is disgustingly ironic. Codenames that are unrelated to what they describe have the advantage that they can describe something else if needed. For example, it was originally assumed that Ubuntu Dapper Drake would become 6.04 LTS. However, they delayed the release for a couple of months for stability reasons, and Dapper Drake became 6.06. If they had referred to Dapper Drake as 6.04 from the start, the change would have been more difficult. Also, codenames are easier to

  • Jackalope? (Score:5, Interesting)

    by torstenvl ( 769732 ) on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @09:38AM (#24931951)
    Aren't Ubuntu releases usually named after animals that actually exist?
  • by Anonymous Coward
    All the critters named up till now have all been real animals right? I just hope that means they move on to nethack creatures... like Nifty Naga!
  • by martinw89 ( 1229324 ) on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @09:45AM (#24932031)

    In the PyWeek IRC room, one person found the translation for this name:

    "I'm so rich I've gone to space so I can name this whatever the fuck I feel like."

  • by Blice ( 1208832 ) <Lifes@Alrig.ht> on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @10:01AM (#24932255)
    I'm glad they're finally going to put some attention on boot time and speed. I'm a big fan of getting your boot times down, mine is 8 seconds (brag brag...).

    But when I see Ubuntu and it boots slower than XP and... Well, feels slower than XP, I have to facepalm. Linux is supposed to be the faster one, it's supposed to be the one where you can say "Man, you use XP? It's so slow! Use Linux!", but with Ubuntu you can't really say that. Not that it's Ubuntu's fault, I put the blame on Gnome. The Gnome desktop is bulky and slow, your *panel* shouldn't be using CPU cycles constantly, or the amount of memory gnome-panel uses. There's alternatives for sure (And I'm not talking about KDE, it's almost as bad.), but you have to piece it together yourself because it isn't a single DE. I.E, Openbox WM, pypanel or bmpanel or lxpanel or lbpanel or one of those (I prefer pypanel and bmpanel), pcmanfm filenavigator (Can also set icons on the desktop and manage wallpapers), and on and on. There's tons of lightweight programs out there with the same abilities, just not packaged neatly together. But people are trying! Just have a look at crunchbang linux [crunchbang.org] and DEs like lxde [lxde.org]. Using this stuff, you can get that old 550mhz thinkpad you have in your closet up and running again, webbrowsing and e-mailing at lightning speeds. THIS, to me, is what Linux should represent. Not the slow bulky thing you have to buy a new computer for!

    But about the other things with the new Ubuntu release, polishlinux has a great review of what Ubuntu alpha looks like right now, and what we can expect from it here [polishlinux.org].

    Looks like nautilus is finally getting tabs, although the lighter pcmanfm has had tabs for awhile. I'm really excited about is improvements with the network manager and with xorg... Two places that really need improvement. Seems like wireless support improves with each release, and I hope it continues on that awesome path. And it seems that the kernel 2.6.27 will be out in time for this release! It's already on rc5, and most kernels don't go past rc10 before release (And they're releasing an rc once a week, or about once a week).

    It's all very exciting, but again the one thing I hope for more than anything else is speed and bloat! Keep Linux the OS that you say "You don't even have to get a new computer for it. It's fast, unlike Vista/XP/OSX/Everythingever", please please please
    • I'd rather have a linux version that is more user friendly for installing apps, instead of having to google instructions each time I want to install stuff that isn't in synaptic.

      I mean cmon, do I really have to open the terminal and type 4-5 command lines each time plus my root pw?

      Installing stuff should be as easy as click, are you sure? yes/no.

      • by Blice ( 1208832 )
        For Debian/Ubuntu based distros, if you can't find something in Synaptic you can search for a .deb of the program you're looking for. Think of it as a .msi for Windows, you double click it and it has a button to install. Very easy.

        I suggest searching for the program you can't find here [getdeb.net]
    • Re: (Score:3, Interesting)

      by Bob-taro ( 996889 )

      Mod parent up. I was getting annoyed that no-one seemed to care about anything except what they named the release! I was starting to think I was on a PHB forum!

  • by Cro Magnon ( 467622 ) on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @10:29AM (#24932619) Homepage Journal

    must have nixed "Jaunty Jackass". :(

  • Now that will be AWESOME, even though a yiffy yak sounds like a very scary thing.

  • ... that a jackalope is easily recognizable from his debut in Pixar's Boundin' [pixar.com] short.

  • by The MAZZTer ( 911996 ) <megazzt.gmail@com> on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @10:56AM (#24932927) Homepage
    I never would have guessed that 9.04 (IE 04/2009) would be coming next April.
  • by jimmy_dean ( 463322 ) <james.hodapp @ g m a il.com> on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @12:59PM (#24934555) Homepage

    1. Jumping Joey
    2. Jaded Jackal
    3. Justice Jaguar

  • by Doc Ruby ( 173196 ) on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @01:36PM (#24935029) Homepage Journal

    Canonical, the corporation that owns the Ubuntu distro (ie, Red Hat Inc's and Microsoft's direct competitor), has dropped official support of PowerPC from its work. Which means that PPC architecture versions of Ubuntu are falling behind, even to the point where the kernel in the latest releases cannot boot on PPC machines. PPC isn't just old Macs and powerful dedicated workstations. It's also the main core in many supercomputers, lots of embedded CPU devices, and the Sony PS3. Those machines need more active work to keep Ubuntu working on them.

    But PPC is still supported as part of the Ubuntu project as a community effort, which is what Open Source is all about. If you've got some spare cycles, or even better some independently developed PPC code, to help Ubuntu keep running on the PowerPC architecture, please join the people supporting the community distro [ubuntu.com].

  • by Spinlock_1977 ( 777598 ) <Spinlock_1977@@@yahoo...com> on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @02:30PM (#24935693) Journal

    I want to see Al Gore get involved. How about a ManBearPig release?

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