Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope” Released
April 23rd, 2009 by Avram Piltch, LAPTOP Online Editorial Director 
The developers at Canonical have just released the latest version of their industry-leading Linux, Ubuntu 9.04 which goes by the code name “Jaunty Jackalope.” The new Ubuntu comes with OpenOffice.org 3.0 preinstalled, faster boot times, enhanced suspend and resume features, and better intelligent swtiching between Wi-Fi and 3G for mobile broadband users. The new version also promises a slightly updated look with new icons and artwork. However, it appears that Canonical is sticking with the ugly orange and brown for its default color scheme. Ubuntu is one of the easiest and best-supported Linuxes out there and it’s a totally free download so, if you’re looking for a free operating system, this is the one to use. You can download the complete install right now from the Ubuntu site. Ubuntu via Engadget
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April 23rd, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Ugly brown and orange, Thats in my opinion a heck of alot better looking then the WINBLOWs blue. Besides that with a couple of clicks it can be changed to 1000 differnt colours and looks., Ive been beta testing this latest Ubuntu for months now and what Ive been finding is every 6 months when the latest is released to the public Ubuntu becomes better abd better. This last release “9.04″ Ive been finding has just broken a threash hold that all other operating systems cant come close too. On a scale of 1 to 10 winblows has always been around the 3 mark, the last Ubuntu 8.10 was a very commanding and so impressive 7.5 but 9.04 dang there is really nothing to say just try it……it just works…….I definately give 9.04 a 9.5out of 10, I would have gone higher but dang every release they excell so incredibly much that when this comming October rolls around with 9.10 there just wont be enough room to judge Ubuntu unless I start making negative numbers on the scale -10 to +10 so Winblows at least can have a proper placement on the scale. Hands held high with the king of beers for you folks down at Ubuntu….keep breaking new barriers, Mike H
April 24th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
You can change anything that you wish to change: colors, wallpapers, effects, the entire window manager, or anything else in the system. (see http://www.gnome-look.org) That’s the beauty of GNU/Linux and BSD. The orange and brown are part of the Ubuntu philosophy of humanity.
April 27th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
I wonder in which universe you’re living. Ubuntu 9.04 (“Jaunty Jackalope”) is seriously broken. I had my first suspicions when I booted a fairly fast 2.3 GHz Intel Celeron laptop from the LiveCD and it took over a minute (yes, a MINUTE, not a second) for http://www.google.com to load in Firefox 3.0.8. I went ahead and installed it on the hard drive the next day, and the performance is the same: It took 1-2 minutes to load Google’s home page, and I gave up after 10 minutes when the Weather Underground page (www.wunderground.com) didn’t finish loading. (Corresponding times on 8.10 “Intrepid Ibex” on that same machine were <1 second for Google, <10 seconds for Weather Underground.) Is this supposed to be an April Fools joke? It seems that every x.04 release that I’ve tried in the last couple of years from Canonical is a dud. So, they changed the look of the interface. What good does it do if the computer runs at one-tenth the speed of the previous Ubuntu release? Others are reporting serious problems with networking on the Ubuntu forums, less than a week after the 9.04 release — inability to connect to other Ubuntu machines or Windows machines on their LANs, so I know it isn’t just my setup.
My recommendation for current Ubuntu users and the curious is to stick with release 8.10. I tried 8.04 last year, and couldn’t get Samba to run at all; it would crash instantly at startup, making it useless for operation in a mixed Windows/Linux LAN environment.
April 28th, 2009 at 2:07 am
Why is Andrew P. having these difficulties? Most other commentators other than the Redmond diehards, some of them still believe Linux doesn’t have GUI interfaces and all packages must be compiled, have been impressed by its speed and stability and its flawless operation. For me everything just work ‘out of the box’.
The must be something seriously wrong with his installation or possible internet connection. The weather underground site loaded in under 2 seconds, so I’d look elsewhere than blame Canonical.
Oe obvious thing to do is stop using Windows and if you are sufficiently antique still to think you need need, install Wine.