Meh. The lack of comments sums it up. It's like Ubuntu went climbed 85% of the way up Mt Everest, then lost interest and is starting to walk down again.

I am going to wait till they finalize the packages before spending time downloading and installing it. I am generally happy with Ubuntu releases and my organization has several departments all running Ubuntu 7.04 and Ubuntu 7.10. I am currently running 8.04 and have 8.10 installed on my home machines.

Lets see the next great release from Ubuntu! :)

thats true the interest is lost, the problem for home users is that it is hard to get two ubuntus communicate with each other and there is no voice chat in pidgin or no messenger that dose the same. well finally very few plug and play devices and for my eepc it took days to get my graphical card to work and my mic and cam still dose not work...

Yaaaaaaawn..... I was an avid user of ubuntu for a yr or 2. I appreceate that as each release comes around, most of the changes are "under the bonnet". THE INTERFACE IS SO DAMN OLD!!!!!!!!!!!! Do something to make it visually appealing OUT OF THE BOX and it will take on windows a little more seriously. As it is, Ubuntu has lost me. I've learnt it, tweaked it and now I am tired.

I don't like Ubuntu... I've tried twice, first with 6.10 and second with 8.10, and no one made me happy.


Instead, I rather prefer Kubuntu. In fact, I'm actually running Kubuntu 8.04 with KDE3.5, and it is fantastic. It is very and easily customizable (I have everything custom, from GRUB to KDE splash), and it runs with all my hardware, wich is one of the biggest goals. In my laptop, wifi just don't run on Windows, nor my webcam on Ubuntu. So Kubuntu is my choice.


The big good new is that the releases of Ubuntu usually means Kubuntu's ones too :D :D.



Cheers from Spain.



Salud

Kubuntu is Ubuntu with a different desktop environment, KDE instead of Gnome. That shouldn't change compatibility with your hardware?

Now Ubuntu 9.04 alpha is slower than 8.10. And it's sad(i was going to install it). But it's intresting to try ext4 and openoffice 3 and kde4

I don't understand why everyone is slamming Ubuntu, if you want it changed, then change it, anyone has the ability to edit the source. Anyway the new Jaunty is supposed to come with more professional themes and a much faster boot time, and OOO 3.0

That's the problem. Not everyone knows how to change ubuntu up to the core. But i think if its the theme, a few google search will lead you to some good guides on changing themese and further UI candy like adding widgets and docks, or enabling the super cool xgl/compiz desktop effects. If you really cant just let go of the windows/mac feeling u can also look for a good skin imitating one . gnome-look website and kde-look website has lots to offer in this department . i've been using ubuntu from 2005 and its getting better and better(and easier to use), even when its still not my main OS for daily use.

I just wonder why they dont insert SongBird as preinstalled music player . Its super cool and much better than rhythmbox , amarok , or any music player in Linux environmment.

I was pleased with ubuntu 7.04 for a year
I am running 8.10 now and waiting for 9.04

I have everything I need and it works perfect even on old computer with ddr400 256Mb ram !
I use my computer for work and it is very important for me that it is open source. For example I have changed the Liferea to play a sound file when a new feed is received.
I had fun last weekend and changed look of my Ubuntu. Got nice brown icons and wallpaper from gnome-look.org , changed the theme to Dust and cursors to Handhelds

The programs that I use and suggest everyone as perfect for work:

Firefox (customized look - just four buttons previous, next, reload, stop then google search and long address bar)
Evolution
cGMAIL (instead of Evolution notification plugin)
gFTP
gPHPEdit
Liferea (customized to play a notification sound)
Searchmonkey (instead of Ubuntu 8.10 File Search because it has a bug when open a .php file but I think it will be fixed in Jaunty)

I also have games for spare time like FooBillard (you can play carambol with it), BillardGL, Torcs (with one car modified look and speed)

I have written a script for auto connect to internet. I have turned off the Ubuntu login page. I install every software on my computer without any fear of viruses, browse all the the web sites. I think if there was a competition for most reliable OS in my city I would get the first place. Because all my friends and people I know only have problems problems and problems with their computer. And when I give a web link they ask if it's a good site to visit . I feel like I can do everything I want with my computer and it's still working good

If you need customizable and reliable OS for programming Ubuntu is for you

I agree with stepdown regarding Salud's comment;

Hardware compatibility that's not an issue in Kubuntu would not be an issue in Ubuntu either since Kubuntu is Ubuntu with KDM instead of GDM

@Salud - Possibly your Ubuntu Version is older than your Kubuntu Version;

Anyway, I made the switch from Windows to Kubuntu about a year back. No way I'm ever going back to Windows. Kubuntu's about two to three times faster than Windows for most applications and the effects in KDE 4.2 are just mind-boggling. And my systems's not all that sharp either. All I've got is 512MB of RAM!!!

Confession though - OpenOffice 2 is way behind Micosoft Office 2007. Hoping OO3 changes that.

I am running ubuntu 8.04 now. Its working great for me. I even configured my internal TV card to work on ubuntu. The sad part is that you cannot have a voice chat and video chat. I am downloading 8.1 now and will upgrade my ubuntu soon.