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Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope" Alpha 4 Released
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| Not only did Fedora 11 Alpha make it out the door today, but so did the
| fourth alpha release for Ubuntu 9.04 (the Jaunty Jackalope). Ubuntu 9.04
| Alpha 4 continues to build upon a bleeding-edge set of Linux packages (though
| still tracking the Linux 2.6.28 kernel) and has installation support for the
| EXT4 file-system and new notification capabilities.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzA0Mw
Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha 4 Screenshot Tour
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| The fourth alpha version of the upcoming Ubuntu 9.04 (codename Jaunty
| Jackalope) was uploaded a few minutes ago on the official mirrors. As usual,
| we've downloaded a copy of it in order to keep you up to date with the latest
| changes in the Ubuntu 9.04 development.
|
| What's new in Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha 4? Well, the big news is that Nvidia and AMD
| have finally released some new and improved video drivers for Linux systems,
| in order to keep up with the latest technologies. Therefore, starting with
| this alpha, the Nvidia proprietary video driver has been added and it
| supports the latest X.Org server, version 1.6 (see screenshots three and four
| on the first row). ATI users will have to wait a little bit longer, as the
| fglrx proprietary video driver is not yet supported (it will be fixed until
| the Beta release arrives).
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http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubuntu-9-04-Alpha-4-Screenshot-Tour-103859.shtml
"Fat operating systems spend most of their energy supporting their own fat."
--Nicholas Negroponte, MIT Media Lab, rediff.com, Apr 2006
Recent:
Ubuntu 8.10 OS giveaway
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| We have a copy of Ubuntu 8.10 to give away this week. Ok, not only this week
| and not only one copy. In fact, get as many as you want, tell your friends as
| well.
|
| * Powerful, modern, user-friendly desktop environment.
| * Out-of-the-box support for most available hardware and USB devices.
| * Home networking.
| * Home computer backup.
| * Secure, multi-user environment, no need to run anti-virus software.
| * Thousands of applications for any task, freely available, easily
| browsable and installed with just a few clicks: Complete office suites
| (word processing, spreadsheets, etc.), graphic design, multimedia, photo
| management, games, Internet, education, sciences, programming, and much
| more.
| * 100% DRM free, no restrictions, no license keys, no fees, no charges,
| no secret collecting and passing on of your data, no artificial limits on
| what you can do with your computer and your data, 100% respect for you,
| the user.
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http://www.geekzone.co.nz/foobar/6125
Related:
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| A couple of years ago you reiterated that IBM was Microsoft's biggest
| competitor and you said not just on the business side, but overall. If I ask
| you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
|
| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
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