Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope

Just finished downloading Ubuntu 9.04, code-named JauntyJackalope. Its latest public release made its way yesterday April 23, 2009 PST. Though I haven’t yet installed it but judging by the couple of reviews that I’ve read, this version is kinda promising. I use OpenSUSE on my development desktop and I’m not planning on dumping it anytime soon. To be honest, I’m not really a fan of Ubuntu distro. I had the chance to try it years ago, 4 or 5 years ago, I think but after a week or so, I returned to my good ol’ FreeBSD. I guess it’s the brown theme that made me hate it. And yeah! I use FreeBSD as a desktop! Sounds geeky huh? But that was years ago, I am now using OpenSUSE distro for my desktop and it makes me feel just right. But with the latest release of Ubuntu, thing might chance!

I read a couple of reviews regarding Jaunty Jackalope and the reviews was good, it is fast, slick as Windows 7 or Mac OS X, new features/notification, EXT4 file system support, boot time improvement and updated applications.

The next release will be code-named Karmic Koala or 9.10 which will be on October 2009.