March 27, 2009 at 10:29Ubuntu 9.04 Beta 1 Released
The first beta version of Ubuntu 9.04 has been released.
The main innovations of the desktop edition of Ubuntu 9.04: significant boot acceleration, the transition to GNOME 2.26, KDE 4.2.1, OpenOffice.org 3.0.1, X.Org server 1.6 and the implementation in the user interface of a new method for displaying system notifications and indicators of state changes (volume changes , detection of wifi network, readiness of USB Flash for extraction, etc.). Newly received notifications line up on the screen and look ephemeral, i.e. they do not require any reaction from the user and are hidden automatically and are initially positioned as a means of intermediate informing (the user is invited to see the details or any actions directly in the application that generated the notification).
In the server edition of Ubuntu 9.04, a universal package (dovecot-postfix) is added for quick deployment of a mail server (SMTP, POP3, IMAP with TLS and SASL) based on Postfix and Dovecot IMAP. Another server innovation is the integration of the Eucalyptus system, which allows you to create a cloud-compatible infrastructure with Amazon EC2 (EC2) for transparent imaging of virtual machines based on your own set of servers with Xen (rental slots for running virtual machines).
Of the applications included in the distribution kit, one can note: GCC 4.3.3, glibc 2.9, Linux kernel 2.6.28.8, Python 2.6.1, Apache 2.2, PostgreSQL 8.3, PHP 5.2.6, LTSP 5.1.
Some other improvements:
- Integratedsupport for the ext4 file system, which can now be selected during installation via the Ubuntu Installer interface. It was decided that by default the ext4 file system will be used starting with the release of Ubuntu 9.10;
- The Ubiquity installer has the ability to encrypt the contents of individual user home directories. In release 8.10, the “Private” directory was introduced for storing private data, the data in which is stored in encrypted form; in 9.04, the functionality was expanded by encrypting entire home directories. In addition, the installation program noted many small improvements, for example, a new graphical interface for choosing the time zone was implemented, the form's work for improving the language was improved.
- Support for font size optimization depending on the size of the monitor (previously, by default it was always 96dpi). You can change the settings through the menu System / Preferences / Appearance / Fonts / Details.
- The included open driver for ATI Radeon cards is transferred from XAA acceleration architecture to EXA;
- The ability to install wine when trying to run a windows program, much like it is now done for multimedia codecs. Setting up Windows program parameters will be greatly simplified, instead of starting winecfg, the ability to set wine parameters will be integrated into the system menu (system / preferences / windows applications).
- Created X.Org configuration file editor, aimed at changing driver settings. Also prohibitedrebooting the X-server by pressing ctrl-alt-backspace; tools are being developed for automated testing of all aspects of X.org;
- Implementation of a new mechanism for installing media codecs;
- Ability to add repositories through the Atpurl utility .
Separately, Ubuntu developers ask to test the system for entering sleep mode, the operation of hot keys and install a new kerneloops daemon, which accumulates data on Linux kernel failures.
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The main innovations of the desktop edition of Ubuntu 9.04: significant boot acceleration, the transition to GNOME 2.26, KDE 4.2.1, OpenOffice.org 3.0.1, X.Org server 1.6 and the implementation in the user interface of a new method for displaying system notifications and indicators of state changes (volume changes , detection of wifi network, readiness of USB Flash for extraction, etc.). Newly received notifications line up on the screen and look ephemeral, i.e. they do not require any reaction from the user and are hidden automatically and are initially positioned as a means of intermediate informing (the user is invited to see the details or any actions directly in the application that generated the notification).
In the server edition of Ubuntu 9.04, a universal package (dovecot-postfix) is added for quick deployment of a mail server (SMTP, POP3, IMAP with TLS and SASL) based on Postfix and Dovecot IMAP. Another server innovation is the integration of the Eucalyptus system, which allows you to create a cloud-compatible infrastructure with Amazon EC2 (EC2) for transparent imaging of virtual machines based on your own set of servers with Xen (rental slots for running virtual machines).
Of the applications included in the distribution kit, one can note: GCC 4.3.3, glibc 2.9, Linux kernel 2.6.28.8, Python 2.6.1, Apache 2.2, PostgreSQL 8.3, PHP 5.2.6, LTSP 5.1.
Some other improvements:
- Integratedsupport for the ext4 file system, which can now be selected during installation via the Ubuntu Installer interface. It was decided that by default the ext4 file system will be used starting with the release of Ubuntu 9.10;
- The Ubiquity installer has the ability to encrypt the contents of individual user home directories. In release 8.10, the “Private” directory was introduced for storing private data, the data in which is stored in encrypted form; in 9.04, the functionality was expanded by encrypting entire home directories. In addition, the installation program noted many small improvements, for example, a new graphical interface for choosing the time zone was implemented, the form's work for improving the language was improved.
- Support for font size optimization depending on the size of the monitor (previously, by default it was always 96dpi). You can change the settings through the menu System / Preferences / Appearance / Fonts / Details.
- The included open driver for ATI Radeon cards is transferred from XAA acceleration architecture to EXA;
- The ability to install wine when trying to run a windows program, much like it is now done for multimedia codecs. Setting up Windows program parameters will be greatly simplified, instead of starting winecfg, the ability to set wine parameters will be integrated into the system menu (system / preferences / windows applications).
- Created X.Org configuration file editor, aimed at changing driver settings. Also prohibitedrebooting the X-server by pressing ctrl-alt-backspace; tools are being developed for automated testing of all aspects of X.org;
- Implementation of a new mechanism for installing media codecs;
- Ability to add repositories through the Atpurl utility .
Separately, Ubuntu developers ask to test the system for entering sleep mode, the operation of hot keys and install a new kerneloops daemon, which accumulates data on Linux kernel failures.
You can download here or here
(c) opennet.ru