{"id":1154,"date":"2009-03-29T13:33:11","date_gmt":"2009-03-29T17:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/?p=1154"},"modified":"2009-03-29T13:33:11","modified_gmt":"2009-03-29T17:33:11","slug":"ubuntu-904-jaunty-jackalope-beta-first-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/ubuntu-904-jaunty-jackalope-beta-first-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) Beta First Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As far as I can tell, jackalopes aren&#8217;t even real animals. I still remember the first time I got a jackalope postcard over ten years ago. Well, the Ubuntu folks have decided to name the next Ubuntu Linux release <i>Jaunty Jackalope<\/i>. I&#8217;ve used every single Ubuntu release since its second one (Hoary Hedgehog). That would be 5.04, 5.10, 6.06, 6.10, 7.04, 7.10, 8.04, and 8.10. Eight releases. And I can honestly say that Ubuntu 9.04 is the smoothest, most polished release I have ever seen from Ubuntu. <\/p>\n<p> I installed Ubuntu 9.04 beta (yes, it is beta, so it not guaranteed to be bug-free) on my Eee PC 701 (which, only a year after I&#8217;ve purchased it, already feels like a netbook dinosaur), and I have only one complaint (which I&#8217;ve filed <a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/gnome-control-center\/+bug\/351056\">a bug report<\/a> on). <\/p>\n<p> At first glance, it looks pretty much like any of the recent releases, but some nice little touches are in there: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Boot up time and general responsiveness are significantly increased, even with still the Ext3 filesystem (I don&#8217;t want to risk Ext4 at this point).\n<li>When the package manager is interrupted, you&#8217;re told to use the command <i>sudo dpkg &#8211;configure -a<\/i> to fix it (instead of the incorrect previously given command <i>dpkg &#8211;configure -a<\/i>\n<li>Hotkeys, sound, touchpad tapping, and wireless all work out of the box with the Eee PC. No tweaking or special kernels necessary.\n<li>Time zone selection during installation actually is by time zone and not by city.\n<li>More themes are included. <\/ul>\n<p> I can&#8217;t think of anything else off the top of my head, but it just feels good. I wanted to file as many bugs as I could before final release. I could find only one bug to file so far, though. <\/p>\n<p> Good job, Ubuntu folks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As far as I can tell, jackalopes aren&#8217;t even real animals. I still remember the first time I got a jackalope postcard over ten years ago. Well, the Ubuntu folks have decided to name the next Ubuntu Linux release Jaunty Jackalope. I&#8217;ve used every single Ubuntu release since its second one (Hoary Hedgehog). That would&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/ubuntu-904-jaunty-jackalope-beta-first-impressions\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) Beta First Impressions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12,21],"tags":[909,566,911,919],"class_list":["post-1154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asus-eee-pc","category-linux","category-ubuntu","tag-eee-pc","tag-jaunty-jackalope","tag-linux","tag-ubuntu","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1157,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions\/1157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}