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Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) Final Release
Blog I won't spend a lot of time rehashing what David has already said, so here are only the highlights from my personal experience and observations during and after installation of the final release: I'm perfectly happy with the standard Ubuntu desktop...
[April 24, 2009, 9:18]
Moblin 2.1 Final Release
Blog It's been about a week since the final release of Moblin 2.1 suddenly showed up on their web page. The good news here, at least, is that there is a new icon in this release, for Bluetooth connections.
[November 10, 2009, 13:48]
Windows XP nears final release
News Microsoft late on Tuesday issued a nearly finished version of Windows XP to testers, signaling it plans to release final code earlier than expected. Microsoft is also expected to release Internet Explorer 6, which is integrated into Windows XP...
[August 16, 2001, 8:30]
Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) Final Release
Blog Comment thanks , jw.i had actually forgotten about the netbook remix version of ubuntu jj *blush*! thankfully, ubuntu are very clear with their instructions on how to create a bootable USB of UNR, so saturday morning was spent mostly DL'ing the .img file...
[May 5, 2009, 13:43]
Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) Final Release
Blog Comment Moley, I had read your posts about having problems with GRUB, and I had been thinking about it. That was part of the reason that I specifically mentioned that I made a clean install, not an upgrade; during the installation I let it install GRUB.
[April 27, 2009, 9:06]
Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) Final Release
Blog Comment "- I always make a fresh installation of a new release, I do NOT try to upgrade an existing installtion" ah, I was going to ask you about this if you hadn't specifically mentioned it! I DL'd the ISO yesterday, but will probably wait until the...
[April 28, 2009, 12:16]
Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) Final Release
Blog Comment I like the naming system. Animal + silly adjective means no false positives when trying to search for news items in Google Alert
[April 25, 2009, 4:02]
Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) Final Release
Blog Comment What was your experience with Grub when you used EXT4. Ubuntu says to reinstall it. Did you do that? I had problems with being locked out of my computer when I used Ext4, with Windows XP and Windows 7 already installed and booted by Grub previously...
[April 25, 2009, 0:24]
Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) Final Release
Blog Comment If you are considering only Ubuntu releases, this is now quite easy, and I have done it a number of times - for example, this is how I have tried out UNR (Netbook Remix) several times. In the Ubuntu System / Administration menu, on 8.10 you will...
[April 28, 2009, 11:59]
Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) Final Release
Blog Comment A word of caution before replacing the current EXT3 filing system with EXT4 (and a good reason not to). There are currently very few backup programs which support backing up EXT4 partitions. Clonezilla being one.http://clonezilla.org/
[April 25, 2009, 15:32]
Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) Final Release
Blog Comment Azonei - that is quite interesting. I'll be very interested in hearing how your wife gets on with UNR, I've been wondering if it would be right on netbooks for some novices here. I have looked at it briefly on my HP Mini-Note, but besides the fact...
[May 6, 2009, 9:28]
Moblin 2.1 Final Release
Blog Comment Worse yet, suppose it gets through to a customer release, and the general press and public have such a low-quality, low-reliability implementation as a "reference" Linux system? @knakworst - I agree with you 100%, and that concern reaches to...
[November 11, 2009, 8:40]
Moblin 2.1 Final Release
Blog Comment What bothers me the most is the unstability and the number of bugs of the release. As it is promoted as an easy-to-use and a convenient operating system, the least you would expect is a stable operating system.
[November 11, 2009, 7:46]
Final countdown for Firefox 1.5 release
Talkback The new release of Konqueror passes the acid2 test (Firefox and Mozilla/Seamonkey don't). It's all done.but, I note that KDE 3.5 was also released today. I feel that there are some really bad bugs, such as 154892, which make it impossible to use...
[November 30, 2005, 4:33]
Final countdown for Firefox 1.5 release
News The next major version of the open source browser Firefox will be released on Tuesday, according to the Mozilla Corporation. Mozilla said on Monday Firefox 1.5 would be available from getfirefox.com and Mozilla.com sometime after 1200 Pacific...
[November 29, 2005, 10:05]
Moblin 2.0 Released
Blog As has been mentioned in the comments to one of my earlier blog entries, the final release of Moblin 2.0 is now available. I had assumed that this would be taken care of by the time the final release came out, but obviously it hasn't, so I did a...
[September 27, 2009, 21:46]
Windows Vista RC2 review
Reviews With the release of Windows Vista RC2 build 5744, Microsoft hopes the operating system is good enough to hand over to hardware manufacturers by the end of November, with a final retail edition of Windows Vista expected in late January 2007.
[October 12, 2006, 8:05]
Third Firefox release candidate imminent
News The third and potentially final release candidate of Firefox 1.5 is fast approaching launch, according to Mozilla Europe on Thursday morning. This release will include a fix of two bugs that were found in the second release candidate, and Nitot was...
[November 17, 2005, 11:50]
Novell finalises OpenSuse 11
News Novell has released the last public version of OpenSuse 11.0 for testing, before the software's final release later this month. One additional internal release is planned for 12 June, followed by a final release date of 19 June.
[June 2, 2008, 16:53]
Mozilla: Final Firefox 3 beta is faster and lighter
News The fifth and final beta version of Firefox 3 was released on Wednesday, ahead of the updated browser's final release in June. Now that the final beta is out, the next stage for Firefox 3 will be a release candidate, which will probably come in May.
[April 3, 2008, 13:09]
