lol, timezone fail.

do you even know your geography? Looks like New York to me. Any further North and you would be in Canada.

it looks awesome... i'm looking forward to use 9.04..

installed ubuntu 9.04 on an acer aspire quad core desk tower...it ran 8.10 previously. This was excellent. 9.04 is as faulty as it gets from boot up. I am disgusted. If ubuntu cant make a cd which works ...please give up and leave it to Microsoft!!!!!!

Nice. Looks promising. Now if HP and Dell unplug themselves from Microsoft we might actually get some of those Linux netbook here.

i just updated it from 8.10 and it is running on an HP Mini 1000 netbook, works great for me, there were some sound bugs at first but i managed to resolve them

Deluge as standard torrent client ? What happend with Transmission ?

Nope, it's still Transmission... I've just mentioned Deluge because until Ubuntu 8.10 it was a very old version (0.5.x) and now it is up-to-date in the repositories... same goes for Filezilla :)

uh.....ext4 isn't being released on 9.04.... where did you get your info from?

Well, EXT4 will not be the default filesystem, but if you choose to manually partition your drives, you can format them with EXT4 :) Which means.... faster system.

ext4 is being released with 9.04. It's available via the alternate install disc, not the live CD.

It's also preent on the Live CD. Just formatted in EXT4 with the Alpha 4 Live CD 2 weeks ago.

Last I heard grub could not boot ext4 filesystems, so at least /boot will need to be ext3

GRUB can boot EXT4 :) Every distro that supports EXT4 patched they GRUB with the latest SVN, which can boot EXT4 partitions!

Cool, thinking of going ubuntu again

For a black splash screen? You choose your distros based on the splash screen?

For the love of God, Ubuntu has created a monster.

The time zone feature is actually a nice one. better than trying to click on a little dot representing your city or having the screen scroll all over the place.

Tht notification system looks good. I use Growl on OS X and I must admit, it is like Quicksilver in that I really miss it when I use another machine. I know that there is probably a way to install an equivalent now, but to have it built in to the OS is cool.

where can I find that third-party green wallpaper?

Here -> http://www.techno-minds.com/AquaDual/AquaDual Green Right.jpg

Its looking good, one step closer to being totally human ;)
Whats the third party theme used in the notifications screenshot?

The third-party theme is GOTCHIONE

http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Desktop-Environment/Themes/Gotchione-42955.shtml

Nice one! Thanks dude :)

Please please I beg the devs to get rid of once and for all the 1990's visual basic look to GNOME with the color arrows next to the OK / CANCEL buttons. And please, the brown is so amateur'ish, kinda like the unprofessional, unpolished bloatware KDE/GNOME have become.

I for one can't wait for 9.04, I love Ubuntu and use it on all new/rebuilt computers I sell.

Is KDE 4.2 going to be included in Jaunty and is it stable? I'm using it on intrepid and am still getting the intermittent plasma crash on login.

Yes! Kubuntu 9.04 will be KDE 4.2 based.... Also, the KDE 4.2 packages will be available in the repositories, for Ubuntu users.

This is looking nice. My only gripe about Gnome is having to stretch a desktop background across my two monitors. Kde and Xforce give you seperate wallpaper, will this ever be a feature in Gnome. Thats really the reason I use Kde for a desktop now. Please add the feature.

Would it work if you just edited the image in the Gimp to be twice as wide and duplicate the image horizontally? I imagine that would be one solution if somewhat ugly.

Why is it loooking like Vista ??? the taskbar ???

but the looks are killer.... !!!


the login screen lookks spectacular

It's not that Ubuntu is looking like Vista, whatever theme Softpedia's chosen to use in this article looks Vista-ish.

I might actually dual boot Ubuntu if it's as awesome as people claim.

Dear Aaron, Softpedia did NOT choose any theme... we have Ubuntu 9.04 installed on a few machines .... since Alpha 3, and last night... Canonical replaced the old Ubuntu 8.10 login screen with the one in this article! Please also check the third screenshot above.

Thank you, Marius Nestor
You are a divine individual.

Alas, it appears that gnome 2.26's gnome-terminal and nautilus still haven't eaten the new session management protocol dogfood introduced with gnome 2.24. If you like having a few terminal windows and file folders open on startup without resorting to 1990 vintage xinitrc tactics, you're still SOL.

Does 9.04 come with only one panel at the bottom of the screen? Or is it some kind of tweaking Softpedia did?

It's our tweaking... it still has two panels!

Ubuntu peaked for me with 8.04... find it increasingly bloated. Particularly problematic for me is when I need to quickly boot into it and Ubuntu decides to run updatedb and apt-xapian-index (or whatever the name is)... hogs the hard drive for 5 to 10 minutes. Can be commented out in the crons, but still a pain that's only developed in recent distributions. Ubuntu needs a version that runs on systems that are not always on because they must be shut down completely for duel-boot purposes.

no firefox 3.1 for ubuntu 9.04?

Not until now... let's hope it will arrive in time :D

Excuse me dear friend, I don't understand what u meant by Firefox 3.1, Firefox is now in Version 3.0.10(stable) for all OS including Linux and Windows.

Wow! this login screen looks really beautiful!!

I hope that they keep the same dark-reddish theme by changing also the gtk theme. The bright plain orange is getting so boring.

Looks like Windows...lol

Linux, every Nerd's dream.

"...the development team will focus their efforts to fulfill certain tasks that are intended to make Ubuntu 9.04 the reflection of the most efficient understanding of the open source ensemble."

What does that actually mean...?

This version is looking to be really good. The old brown theme is gradually being changed into a more modern, sleek look.
Amazing how some moan about something this good that's FREE!
Go and moan at M$

Is there an easy way to get new themes to import into ubuntu? The dXg shot theme and those 1990's GUI's really look outta place in 2010 lol.

You can get a tons of gnome theme and icons on site like gnome-look.org and deviant art. Download the theme that you like after that all you need to do is go into System/Preference/Appearance and just install the new theme.

I dont quite understand your difficulties. 9.04 has been flawless for me from the start. No tweaking at all.