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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 16th Apr 2009 20:30 UTC

The Ubuntu team has released the release candidate for Ubuntu 9.04; we already covered the various changes and additions when the beta was announced. "The Ubuntu team is happy to bring you the latest and greatest software the Open Source community has to offer. This is their latest result, the Ubuntu 9.04 release candidate, which brings a host of excellent new features." The various other Ubuntu-derived distributions, like Kubuntu, have also had their RCs released.

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Erm

by DBAlex on Thu 16th Apr 2009 23:16 UTC

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2006-12-31

Why isn't this front page news...?

Or are you waiting for the non-rc official release...?

But good news anyway,

Also, does anyone have any suggestions as to whether it will be a good idea to use Ext4 with Jaunty... I've heard it's unstable (I've seen reports of file loss etc), is this still the case or has the stability improved?

Alex.

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RE: Erm

by Punktyras on Thu 16th Apr 2009 23:37 in reply to "Erm"

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2006-01-07

Tried beta release (x64) on VirtualBox with ext4. No show after reboot. Something wrong with grub. So tried with ext3. Everything's fine. I'll try to use JJ RC1 with ext4.
God bless virtualization...;)

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RE[2]: Erm

by SlackerJack on Fri 17th Apr 2009 00:00 in reply to "RE: Erm"

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2005-11-12

Most lightly because your boot partition needs to be ext3(grub doesn't support booting from ext4) and Ubuntu doesn't set it up proper. Fedora 11 sets it up as /boot(ext3) /(ext4)

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RE: Erm

by phoenix on Fri 17th Apr 2009 17:38 in reply to "Erm"

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2005-07-11

Why isn't this front page news...?

Are we going to have to go through this ever single time?

Page 1 stories include a "Read More" link where the editors write their take on the news item, and give more details on it.

Page 2 stories don't include the "Read More" link, don't have any extra insights from the editors, and are basically just copy/paste blurbs with links to the main story on whichever web server.

It's not rocket science.

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RE[2]: Erm

by darknexus on Fri 17th Apr 2009 18:13 in reply to "RE: Erm"

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2008-07-15

And, the story about the Ubuntu 9.04 beta release was on the front page. There's really nothing new to report from the beta to the rc in regards to features, so there's no need for an additional read more link and thus no need for it to be on the front page.

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RE: Erm

by Isolationist on Fri 17th Apr 2009 18:36 in reply to "Erm"

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2006-05-28

On the beta version I have found that the Update Manager freezes when installing a particular update, and this only happens when ext4 is used for "/" mount point. It doesn't happen if I use ext3, so not sure what this is, but will continue to use ext3 for now ...

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