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Jaunty Jackalope release candidate unleashed

Benny

Squash those bugs 

Linux

As long as the ATI drivers are fixed for release Im happy.

The beta still gives me a 1" black border around my desktop, 8.10 was fine, but 9.04 seems to ave taken a step backwards

David Wiernicki

Jaunty Jackalope... 

...am I the only one waiting for the 'Q' release? K I can see - Killer Kangaroo, or Kindly ... uh... Kangaroo. But Q... Any ideas there? Quality Quail? Quick Quetzal? Quirky Quahog? I'm just not seeing it.

Justin White

Re: Jaunty Jackalope... 

Coat

I'm more looking forward to X. Xanthic Xenarthra? Xenomorphic Xeme? Xenocrystic Xenicidae?

How about Quixotic Quinquespinosus?

Mines the one with the Quilted Quagga on the back...

Hardcastle

Then there will be X... 

Paris Hilton

Yes, it will be intriguing to see what Mr. Shuttleworth comes up with for the Q release... but if you think it would be tricky to find a suitable Q name, just wait until its time for Ubuntu to go for an X name... at least with Q, you have that Quirky Quahog that the previous poster mentioned, but can anyone come up with an X animal?

Paris cuz she can put the X in X-Rated.

Unlimited

@David Wiernicki 

Boffin

You might try "googling" for "ubuntu release names"

First result:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DevelopmentCodeNames

Anonymous Coward

i'm going to leave now 

Stop

Queer Qantassaurus

Niall

So what comes after 

Zealous Zealot, A.A. Aardvark?

Greg

Jaunty is nice.... 

....but while my boot times are faster, and my interface is nicer, and ext4 does indeed work well....why the hell can't I move my GNOME panels any more? I can tell them top, bottom, left, etc, but I'm on a dual monitor setup. I used to be able to drag and drop them wherever I wanted. I mean, how do you even break that?

Mark

Just to annoy the Scientologists.. 

Gates Horns

Xenophobic Xenu

Martin

the important question 

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You have missed the most important (to me) question.

Will flash games work with it?

Bassey

Only one I can think of is.. 

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X-ray fish. Bit of cheat I know, but Xenophobic X-Ray Fish has a certain ring to it (although the ring may be one of desperation).

A. Lewis

Good stuff 

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I've been using the JJ beta for a little while, and even on my underpowered home PC it's impressively nippy. OS startup is under 35 seconds, and shutdown a bit quicker than that!

Paul Cooper

Plenty X names 

Boffin

Xenopus is well known in genetics laboratories!

Efros

Happy

Xylophagous Xebu = Wood eating (?) cow

Xenophobic Xiphias = Stranger fearing swordfish

Efros

Toastan Buttar

@Benny: Squash those bugs 

Unhappy

I had the identical problem on my old Dell Inspiron laptop (ATI Rage Mobility M4). I have the choice of 640x480 or 800x600 resolution and THAT'S IT. Blimmin' useless, and very frustrating when previous versions of Ubuntu (and even Puppy !) had no trouble getting max resolution out of the same hardware !

OTOH, wireless connectivity is a dream, with a very simple initial setup and automatic reconnection on subsequent reboots. That gets my thumbs up for sure.

And why is Brasero now considered a part of Gnome ? I've been using it as a stand-alone disk-burning app for years. Isn't this integration an unwelcome step towards a more bloated megalithic system ?

I'll reserve judgement until I've used the final release of Jaunty for a few weeks. I really hope they get these ATI driver problems sorted.

vegister

already running the RC 

Linux

already updated my main office PC a few days ago. running smoothly, new notifications working nicely, although I don't know how to configure them (turn off pidgin notifications for example).

haven't noticed a whole lot else except for newer versions of stuff (e.g. gnome do now has docky) - hopefully the rest is just stability improvements under the hood.

still some bugs remain that affect me (yes they have been submitted), but they are niggles rather than show stoppers.

TeeCee

@Hardcastle 

Joke

"..... can anyone come up with an X animal?"

Er, Wolverine?

<drum sting>

Ithankyou. You've been a lovely audience.......

Peter Flynn

@unlimited 

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Thats a really good list of names...

Do you think L will be Leapy Lemming?

I tried the release prior to this and it was a bit buggy. Think I'll wait till its properly released before upgrading.

Anonymous Coward

@Dave 

Start working now. The "Jackalope" was invented about 60 years ago by a guy in Wyoming. Had he lived east of the Hudson River, no doubt he'd have a few years of acclaim as a conceptual artist. As it was, I guess he developed a profitable side business selling jackalopes at a roadside store.

David Wiernicki

@TeeCee 

Coat

Oh, dear. Here - I got your coat for you.

Outcast

Q ? 

Quintessential Quokka ?

Froglord

@Greg 

You have to hold down the <Alt> key to move the GNOME panels now. It was a deliberate change to prevent people shifting them around accidentally.