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First Jaunty Jackalope Alpha Hops Into View

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 24th Nov 2008 18:45 UTC

"The Ubuntu developers have announced the availability of Ubuntu 9.04 alpha 1, the first prerelease for this version. Ubuntu 9.04 is codenamed Jaunty Jackalope and is scheduled for official release in April. The initial plans for Jaunty were published in September, prior to the release of Ubuntu 8.10. Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth aims to boost the software experience and make the popular Linux distribution more competitive with Windows and Mac OS X on the desktop. Canonical intends to push the platform into the mainstream by putting its resources into upstream usability improvements. In addition to the ongoing long-term usability enhancement efforts, Canonical and the Ubuntu development community are focusing on several specific technical goals for 9.04, including improving performance and boot time and integrating web services more tightly with the desktop."

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Canonical..

by fithisux on Mon 24th Nov 2008 19:06 UTC

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2006-01-22

should setup an online store and sell netbooks 10" with Ubuntu. Period ...

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RE: Canonical..

by google_ninja on Mon 24th Nov 2008 20:37 in reply to "Canonical.."

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2006-02-05

https://shop.canonical.com/

no 10" notebooks though.

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RE: Canonical..

by Parry Hotter on Mon 24th Nov 2008 21:31 in reply to "Canonical.."

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2007-07-20

That is the most sensible thing I've heard all day, god damnit.

Edited 2008-11-24 21:32 UTC

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RE: Canonical..

by de_wizze on Tue 25th Nov 2008 03:37 in reply to "Canonical.."

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I don't know if they are big enough to do warranty service yet ...

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RE: Canonical..

by unclebob on Tue 25th Nov 2008 14:26 in reply to "Canonical.."

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An asus eee S101 with ubuntu preloaded ... aahh... *drooling* :-)

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RE: Canonical..

by backdoc on Tue 25th Nov 2008 14:55 in reply to "Canonical.."

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I've been looking around at these new netbooks with Linux preloaded. In terms of hardware, all of the Linux netbooks pale in comparison to the XP.

I want at least 1G ram and 160G HD. The rest I'm fairly indifferent on.

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RE[2]: Canonical..

by lemur2 on Tue 25th Nov 2008 23:00 in reply to "RE: Canonical.."

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I've been looking around at these new netbooks with Linux preloaded. In terms of hardware, all of the Linux netbooks pale in comparison to the XP. I want at least 1G ram and 160G HD. The rest I'm fairly indifferent on.

The hardware that comes with a netbook, and the OS that is installed on it, have nothing but marketing to do with one another.

If there is a particular brand that has better harware features but only XP installed, and you want that hardware, then get the XP version and wipe it, and install Linux.

Given that Microsoft are heavily subsidisng the OEM, you won't be dropping hardly any money by wiping XP, and copies of Linux can be legally had for free. You know that the machine can run Linux because there is another model (say with less RAM and hard disk) that runs Linux.

Once you wipe XP and install Linux, your netbook will suddenly be complete with desktop applications rather than just the bare OS, at no extra expense to you.

The only downside is that Microsoft will count this as a sale ... and they will probably count it as a sale of Vista even though it was XP and you are not actually running either one.

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