Ubuntu 9.04 Beta: Quick Look
So far there have been six alpha releases of the forthcoming Ubuntu 9.04, due for final release next month, and late yesterday the one and only beta release was made available for download. From this point forward there's a release candidate in mid-April, before the final release is made on the 23rd.
With this beta release everything should be shaping up nicely, and (theoretically) the work from this point onwards should be bug-fixing and polish.
Let's find out how the release is shaping up.
Performance
One of the things demanded by Ubuntu head honcho Mark Shuttleworth in his announcement of 9.04 was that boot times should be improved. This certainly seems to have happened, and in my tests 9.04 booted pretty quickly. In fact, booting to the login prompt was actually quicker than resuming the machine from hibernation. (My test machine was a crappy budget laptop with a Celeron chip and 1.5GB of memory; I did a full hard disk install.)
Additionally, the ext4 filesystem driver is now included.
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