Yuan Meng: the existence of Ubuntu9.04 cannot be ignored

Figure: The absolutely cool Ubuntu9.043D desktop was officially released on July 22, April 23 this year and it has been almost a month since. What do people say? It is certain that the release of this version has led to an unprecedented popularity in the International Ubuntu community. Forum activists have soared by more than 10 thousand people (up to 76,214 people), which has never been seen before. What are the new features of version 9.04? Why is it so exciting? What hope do people see? Honestly, in the past 20 days, I was in 8.10

Figure: absolutely cool Ubuntu 9.04 3D Desktop

In April 23 this year, Ubuntu 9.04 was officially released. So far, it has been almost a month. What do people say?

It is certain that the release of this version has led to an unprecedented popularity in the International Ubuntu community. Forum activists have soared by more than 10 thousand people (up to 76,214 people), which has never been seen before. What are the new features of version 9.04? Why is it so exciting? What hope do people see?

To be honest, in the past 20 days, I spent some time switching between versions 8.10 and 9.04. 8.10 put on the hard disk and 9.04 put on the Self-boot USB flash drive. The difference between the two is more and more obvious after repeated comparison. I don't understand one thing: Why is version 9.04 so fast, both of which are Ubuntu, And the release time of the two is only half a year different? The so-called "fast" not only means that the system starts quickly, but also the loading speed of various applications is obviously accelerated, as if the pace of everything is accelerated, even if you place the system on a USB flash drive. On March 13, May 11, TechRepublic published an official comment (Ubuntu 9.04: The official review), which completely confirmed my feelings. This experiment proves that the system startup time is 39 seconds for Single-core AMD processor and 1 GB of memory. It takes 3.18 seconds to load the word processing program (Writer) and 2.14 seconds to load the Firefox browser. Because my processor is Intel's E5200, It is faster than AMD's processor, and it takes less than 30 seconds to start the system from a USB flash drive. In fact, TechRepublic uses the Elive Linux release version (A Debian variant) as a comparison to put it on a faster dual-core AMD processor and 2 GB memory machine, loading the word processing program (same as above) takes 6.10 seconds, and loading the Firefox browser takes 3.05 seconds, which is not fast but slow, further demonstrating the advantage of "fast" in version 9.04.

Ubuntu 9.04 breaks through the concept of "liberalism" and makes a huge step forward in compatibility with private drivers. In terms of image processing and wireless network interfaces, the practical skills have improved a lot. The so-called pure "liberalism" refers to the idea of rejecting all private drivers, and advocates that "everything is free (software )", people cannot communicate with them (that is, they "do not understand "). Ubuntu 9.04 adopts the new file system (ext4), and takes a step forward. TechRepublic confirms that this operation is quite successful, even if it is intended to force power failure to create a man-made fault, the new file system (ext4) it is safe. All these new features enable people to see the bright future of Ubuntu and feel new hopes. At the same time, TechRepublic conducted a network survey and found that 65% of users chose Ubuntu as their favorite Linux release. According to a network vote in Workswithu (conducted by the end of April), 71% of readers have switched to Ubuntu 9.04, and only 5% do not want to do this.

In May 18, I read a piece of news entitled "the opening of the 2009 Open-Source Software Development Forum is just around the corner". The content of this article is just a breeze. Yun is purely a software "8 shares ". In today's economic recession, some people rush to worship the "open-source" flag, and use "open-source" as the guise to promote software "versionization" (ignore Microsoft). It is completely cool, and it is purely nonsense. I just want to stick to Ubuntu and play the self-starting USB flash drive every day until I use the Ubuntu 9.04 self-starting USB flash drive badly. In fact, what I'm worried about is that by the end of March, this guy is not bad, so I cannot upgrade to version 9.10.