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."
Why is this important? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:What I want to know is (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Jackalope? (Score:2, Informative)
A laval newt.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt [wikipedia.org]
Re:What I want to know is (Score:2, Informative)
In Ubuntu, there are more than two releases per year.
Really? Since I've been using it, there's only been 2 per year - the x.04 (April), and x.10 (October) releases. This has been the case since Hoary (4.10?), as far as I know.
Re:What I want to know is (Score:2, Informative)
Re:What I want to know is (Score:1, Informative)
...what the hell are they going to do after 26 releases?
Dr. Seuss already solved this one On Beyond Zebra [wikipedia.org]
Re:What I want to know is (Score:4, Informative)
But that's like, what, 5 releases?
Re:What I want to know is (Score:5, Informative)
Actually, Ubuntu never had an A, B or C named release, they started alphabetical order with Dapper Drake. They've also already used W (Warty Warthog) and repeated H (Hoary Hedgehog and Hardy Heron).
Re:Why is this important? (Score:2, Informative)
Freedom of Speech only applies with respect to the Government, not private entities.
From: First Amendment [cornell.edu]
Re:What I want to know is (Score:3, Informative)
You're forgetting Breezy Badger though there was indeed no A or C named release.
Re:What I want to know is (Score:4, Informative)
Only LTS releases will get point releases, but they're not really "releases" just refreshes of the ISOs, it's nothing meaningful as far as installed systems are concerned (I guess it's useful for setting milestone goals or something, but that's not technical). They take the updated packages, throw them on the CD so you don't have to download as many updates after you install.
Having an installed system that you updated completely the day the images were released* would leave you with the same system.
And while we're being thorough they're offset by three months, so January an August.
See http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/146 [markshuttleworth.com] for more information (including fancy pictures).
* It's likely a day or two before release, whenever the images are created, yadda yadda.
Re:Why is this important? (Score:3, Informative)
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/Gnome's) usability studies.
Usability studies must be monitored by a trained expert, and their review of a user's behavior and recommendations based on that is much more important. If you think I'm wrong, for you and your friends at least, then you might be right, for you and your friends: but you're geeks and you have different priorities.
And as for faster startup times, the last thing you want to do is to frustrate users by making them wait to begin with. Us geeks have worked out methods of getting around this: we leave our computers on or suspend them whenever we can; we go get breakfast or have a shower or perform other aspects of our morning ritual when that's not an option. But for people who the computer isn't an important part of their life, their not going to do these things. The chance of them using their computer is going to be related to the startup speed of their computer,
(I'm also not sure what the "Windows way" of copying a file to another directory is. I can think of at least three, and I don't use Windows that often. Probably there's more.)