Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, announced today that Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop Edition is free to download from Thursday 23 April. Also announced were the simultaneous releases of Ubuntu 9.04 Server Edition and Ubuntu 9.04 Netbook Remix
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New features:
- 2.6.28.8 kernel
- Gnome 2.26 which contains two major new features
- Brasero cd burner
- Gnome Display Propreties
- X.Org server 1.6
- New video card drivers
- EXA acceleration (by default) for ATI drivers
- 2D support for R6/R7 series
- 3D support for R5 series
- Updated fglrx proprietary driver for R6/R7 series 3D support
- New notification system
- Improved boot performance (average boot time of 25 seconds)
- OpenOffice 3.0
- Ext4 filesystem support (not default)
Specific Netbook Remix features
Specific Server Edition features
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Eucalyptus, an open source technology which is included in Ubuntu as a technology preview, enables you to use your own servers to deploy, experiment and test your own private cloud that matches the Amazon EC2 API. You can dynamically create virtual machines, configure multiple clusters into a single Cloud and even provide an EBS (elastic block storage) equivalent and an S3 compatible storage manager.
