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Ubuntu's latest release is out now!!! I got a terrible 150 Kb/s from their http servers, but a solid 600 to 800 Kb/s from the torrents, so it isn't as bad as their 8.10 and 8.04 launches when it took a minute to load each page and you would get 15 Kb/s from http and 200 Kb/s from torrents.

Interesting ... they have a netbook specific version for 9.04 ... is this new?

Anyone know what changes / upgrades they've made? Upgrading for the sake of a shiny number is not really my deal.

WHY is this significant?

I was wondering the same thing,

Maybe compiz runs better or there's better support for Nvidia's and ATI's binaries.

All I remember reading is that they did some boot optimizations so it boots faster. I haven't paid attention to it honestly.

releasing a new version every year or so seems kinda silly to me.

From my memory they have EXT4 now (but not default), it boots a hell of a lot faster, net book versions (like you said), newer gnome, newer xorg, the interface is quite shiny now, and built-in brasero. When I tried out one of the betas on my laptop a month ago, I noticed that the brigthness buttons coordinated correctly with the onscreen brightness bar, as opposed to the previous versions. It also seemed "easier" to use the wireless. In version 8.10 I had to wait about 20 seconds before it connected to my network, not it takes just a few.

Agreed.

While one can hit the newer repositories and update from there, I think we all know, this isn't exactly fun if something goes awry, so I can see the need for a newer release if you really like something (i.e. KDE, Gnome, etc..) and it's just not acting right.

This version comes with a money printing app compiled into the kernel itself.

I'll hold off on the upgrade for now. I wasn't too impressed with the jump from 8.06 to 8.10, x.10 seemed less responsive out of the box than x.06 did.
Unless there is a speed increase, think I'll pass altogether on this since my Buntu boxes are pretty much dedicated folders and speed is important.

I have an older laptop I'll try this on. Only problem is the DVD-ROM is going out.
I'll take it apart and connect an IDE CD-ROM I have lying around to it and a separate PS and let you know how I like it.

If it has windows on it, you can use WUBI to install it without a CD or DVD.

Interesting option but I've been wanting to get XP off it for a while now anyway. It's slowed WAY down and I can't do a fresh install on it with the CD problem anyway.
Thanks!

I'm gonna check out the Kubuntu version and see how KDE 4.02 is.

I just love the smell of overloaded servers in the morning.

I think Ill wait a day or two and hope the servers are doing better.

Really?
I downloaded it and it took less than 30 minutes.

ditto...must be you. Took me ~35 minutes @400K/sec

*downloading and creating a new VirtualBox VM for it now*

I like Ubuntu 9.04. The new notifications are the best (and most noticeable thing). Startup time is great too - It booted in literally about 10 sec the first time. The only problem I had is I was trying to do ext4, so I set ext4 as the only partition - I forgot to format /boot as ext3 .

Otherwise I love it! The only thing is I know enough about linux to be moving past Ubuntu. I think I'm gonna drop it for something.. different.. soon.

Go for a stage 1 install of gentoo .. the process of creating your system will fill in a lot of blanks. Well, it did for me anyway

Not sure if it was because I disassembled the lappy and removed the DVD Rom (And then remembering that you can hook up a standard IDE HARD DRIVE not DVD ROM) and then reassembling the lappy, but anyway the DVD ROM started working correctly. Might have just been that I burned the ISO at a slower speed.

Anyway..... seems to be working pretty well.
I'm having issues connecting to my wireless. I'm using WPA-TKIP and for some reason it's not liking that arrangement. I may have to install a WPA add-on or change my security setup to get it to work. I was up pretty late and gave up on it for the night.
I'll try again tonight.

Downloaded it last night. Going to upgrade the fiances laptop. She has an older version that isn't supported in the repos anymore. I think it is 7.1?

Haha, wow, I just realized that Firefox and Utorrent give out speeds in bytes per second, not bits, so I guess that their servers and torrents were eight times faster than what I originally put.