Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) Final Release

[Brazen]

This is to let you readers know that Ubuntu 9.04 has been released as Final. I also want to encourage you to download via torrent files. If I remember correctly, right after previous releases, it would take 24 hours to download directly from the heavily loaded Ubuntu mirrors, but you could get a torrent in about an hour. The cool thing about torrents is, when there is heavy downloading of the torrent, it actually goes faster for everyone. In fact, in the 10 minutes it took me to write this post, Ubuntu desktop iso is 100% downloaded.

Anyway, if you don't have a torrent program, check out uTorrent on Windows. Then download your choice of torrent files below and load them into uTorrent.

Ubuntu
32bit Desktop install CD/LiveCD
32bit "Alternate" install CD
32bit Server install CD

64bit Desktop install CD/LiveCD
64bit "Alternate" install CD
64bit Server install CD

32bit Netbook Remix USB install image (not a torrent)

Wubi, the Ubuntu installer for Microsoft Windows (not a torrent)

Xubuntu
32bit Desktop install CD/LiveCD
32bit "Alternate" install CD

64bit Desktop install CD/LiveCD
64bit "Alternate" install CD

Kubuntu
32bit Desktop install CD/LiveCD
32bit "Alternate" install CD

64bit Desktop install CD/LiveCD
64bit "Alternate" install CD

md5sums (Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Kubuntu)
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3b5e9861910463374bb0d4ba9025bbb1 *ubuntu-9.04-alternate-amd64.iso
c564ae16dffb51a922aef74a07250473 *ubuntu-9.04-alternate-i386.iso
cace6ea9dde8dc158174e345aabe3fae *ubuntu-9.04-desktop-amd64.iso
66fa77789c7b8ff63130e5d5a272d67b *ubuntu-9.04-desktop-i386.iso
8f921e001aebc3e98e8e8e7d29ee1dd4 *ubuntu-9.04-netbook-remix-i386.img
78cf52114804f80576b0bfc8f5984339 *ubuntu-9.04-server-amd64.iso
20480057590ff8b80ad9094f40698030 *ubuntu-9.04-server-i386.iso
5e6f6acf2105c366db2f9727e2a65d03 *wubi.exe

3539726b4aa58801427578bb66da5fd1 *xubuntu-8.10-alternate-amd64.iso
db016f2f55ea2109b787a191b8115c67 *xubuntu-8.10-alternate-i386.iso
4153396adde6b210c07ef7d7ccb14231 *xubuntu-8.10-desktop-amd64.iso
53c50ff06f4ad659f0abf6474b58c8e6 *xubuntu-8.10-desktop-i386.iso

a292c1caaedb481db56462f16453c408 *kubuntu-9.04-alternate-amd64.iso
a846a8059ebd37730f8b803e6cae9311 *kubuntu-9.04-alternate-i386.iso
798b8789af2f13bb9687b2ce57f25f9c *kubuntu-9.04-desktop-amd64.iso
537a22de1342d5671b7e0070f66a6076 *kubuntu-9.04-desktop-i386.iso
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After downloading, it is prudent (and simple and easy) to check the md5sum. Try winmd5sum on Windows or run 'md5sum filename' on the linux command line.

NOTE: These are good links, but the Ubuntu servers are really loaded down right now, so even getting the torrent file is being problematic. Just be patient, and trying to browse the Ubuntu website is only going to add to the problem. I've actually had the best luck using 'wget' to download the torrent files, so try that if you have access to a linux machine.

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[mc866]

Thanks for the links, looks like the main Ubuntu site is getting hammered!

 

[KeypoX]

I asked this before but i want to ask again 😛 if i installed the RC will this be any different? Or will the RC update to final anyways?

 

[Crusty]

If you have the RC installed already you have the full version assuming you've done the automatic updates after the release. It's not like the RC is a totally different OS then the final version, it just doesn't have all the 'final' software packages in the repositories yet.

 

[Bateluer]

Downloaded and burned.

My plan is to finally bite the bullet entirely and nuke my Windows partition entirely. I was cruising the Ubuntu forums this morning, seems there's some problems, but nothing seemed major yet, at least, in the hardware and general forums that I was looking. Helped someone get his Radeon X1270 IGP working using the RadeonHD driver. 🙂

 

[Schadenfroh]

May have to install it once classes end for the semester. I usually bounce back and forth between OpenSUSE and Ubuntu to stay close to the (stable) bleeding edge.

You guys going with the new EXT4?

 

[SickBeast]

I'm using EXT4. It boots way faster for me than 8.10 did.

TBH this release of Ubuntu feels like an early beta to me. I'm experiencing numerous glitches, both on my NV-based desktop and my Intel-based laptop. Hopefully it won't be too long; these seem like driver-related issues to me.

 

[Gamingphreek]

I reinstalled, trusting that canonical new what they were doing with this release - even though I heard about the Intel drivers.

I have to go back - I like a lot of what they did in this release - but the Intel drivers are completely and totally unusable for me. I am unable to enable any Desktop Compositing so everything looks weird. I wish canonical would fix:

1. Wireless-N with the 4965AGN - I never ever ever get anything above wireless G speeds. In Windows I normally am near 130. What gives??
2. FIX INTEL VIDEO - Dear sweet Lord... someone should be fired for this. In 8.10 and earlier I have to manually update the MESA drivers in order to use multi monitor above 2k-2k.... now everything is completely unusable.

-Kevin

 

[Brazen]

Everything is working fine for me now. I'm coming from Hardy so I see some design changes I don't like, but they may have been in Intrepid also. For one thing, what is the deal with messing up the shutdown button? Vista turned their's into that stupid little pop-out menu and now Ubuntu has to do the same?! I loved the Hardy shutdown dialog. Nice big buttons, easy to read and difficult to miss-click. Plus why is my name tied to the shutdown button now? Fbreader also made some design changes that really suck, but that is hardly Ubuntu's fault. VLC also made some design changes that really really suck.

It's kinda sad. I think I miss Hardy now. The new "New Wave" theme looks pretty cool. Other than that, things look either changed for the worse or not changed at all. I do like that OpenOffice is now at version 3, but I could just get that on Hardy with the OpenOffice PPA.

I'm still using xfs, instead of ext4. From what I've seen of benchmarks ext4 is just reaching the performance of xfs, so I don't see any reason to switch now from something with a long stable history. I'm glad for the ext4 update, but I'll probably stick with xfs until btrfs is stable.

 

[Brazen]

I went ahead and checked and bootup takes 35 seconds from pressing the power button to getting the login screen on my Dell D830 laptop. I thought I would compare it to my newer and much beefier Windows XP desktop, but it took about 2 minutes 45 seconds. This XP computer is part of a domain though, so it may be doing some domain stuff on bootup. To be fair I should probably compare it to a fresh install and configured XP machine...

 

[Fox5]

Hmm, I wonder if this will get a 9.04.1 release like ubuntu 8.10 or 8.04. (I forget which one had an emergency release shortly the real release to fix bugs)

 

[XBoxLPU]

I think most of the problems exists of the move to xorg 1.6

 

[Brazen]

Originally posted by: Fox5
Hmm, I wonder if this will get a 9.04.1 release like ubuntu 8.10 or 8.04. (I forget which one had an emergency release shortly the real release to fix bugs)

8.10 never had a .1 release. And I think you are confusing the purpose for the 8.04.1 release ( now 8.04.2 ). It was not an "emergency" release. It was a planned release to consolidate all the updates that came out since the original release date because 8.04 is a long term support release. Installing from an 8.04 cd and installing all updates will result in the same system as installing 8.04.1 or 8.04.2 and installing all updates, it will just take longer to download and install all the updates starting from an older 8.04 cd install.

They did the same thing with the previous LTS relese ( 6.06, now 6.06.2 ) and they will do the same thing with the next LTS release. 9.04 is not an LTS release so it will not get a 9.04.1 iso update.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

I opened about 8 web pages in a Google search for new features, there doesn't seem to be a single interesting new feature from 8.10. The most interesting things were the Growl-like notifications (oh joy :roll🙂 and the EXT4 file system. What a disappointment, no wonder all of the podcasts that are mentioning this release aren't going into detail about what's actually new about it. Not going to waste my bandwidth.

 

[Nothinman]

I opened about 8 web pages in a Google search for new features, there doesn't seem to be a single interesting new feature from 8.10. The most interesting things were the Growl-like notifications (oh joy ) and the EXT4 file system. What a disappointment, no wonder all of the podcasts that are mentioning this release aren't going into detail about what's actually new about it. Not going to waste my bandwidth.

Not really surprising, most of the changes in Linux software are evolutionary. Things progressively get better (depending on your perspective for some of them I guess) through lots of small changes. Once in a while a major change happens like KDE4, Compiz, etc but you can't expect stuff like that for every release.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

I opened about 8 web pages in a Google search for new features, there doesn't seem to be a single interesting new feature from 8.10. The most interesting things were the Growl-like notifications (oh joy ) and the EXT4 file system. What a disappointment, no wonder all of the podcasts that are mentioning this release aren't going into detail about what's actually new about it. Not going to waste my bandwidth.

Not really surprising, most of the changes in Linux software are evolutionary. Things progressively get better (depending on your perspective for some of them I guess) through lots of small changes. Once in a while a major change happens like KDE4, Compiz, etc but you can't expect stuff like that for every release.

Then perhaps they should use more sensible version numbers, because apparently the tech media considers this a major release, and so did I when I saw 8.10 -> 9.04.

 

[irishScott]

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer

Originally posted by: Nothinman

I opened about 8 web pages in a Google search for new features, there doesn't seem to be a single interesting new feature from 8.10. The most interesting things were the Growl-like notifications (oh joy ) and the EXT4 file system. What a disappointment, no wonder all of the podcasts that are mentioning this release aren't going into detail about what's actually new about it. Not going to waste my bandwidth.

Not really surprising, most of the changes in Linux software are evolutionary. Things progressively get better (depending on your perspective for some of them I guess) through lots of small changes. Once in a while a major change happens like KDE4, Compiz, etc but you can't expect stuff like that for every release.

Then perhaps they should use more sensible version numbers, because apparently the tech media considers this a major release, and so did I when I saw 8.10 -> 9.04.

It's noticeably faster than 8.10. At least on my comp. Boot time practically got sliced in half. Also automatically detected my USB sound card properly (primary, serves as a SS adapter for my speakers). Back in 8.10 I had to mess around first with ALSA, then pulseaudio, to no end just to get it to play right; and it was jury rigged at best when I was done, but at that point I really didn't give a shit.

 

[Nothinman]

Then perhaps they should use more sensible version numbers, because apparently the tech media considers this a major release, and so did I when I saw 8.10 -> 9.04.

The version numbers are fine, they correspond to the month and year of the release. And some people would consider the availability of ext4 filesystem alone worth a major version bump. It all depends on what you're interested in.