Canonical announces Ubuntu9.04 version (desktop, server and notebook)

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Canonical Monday (4/20) announced the official launch of the Ubuntu9.04 version (desktop, server, and notebook). The desktop and Server editions are available for free download from 4/23 days, while the notebook version is ubuntu9.04netbookremix from 4/30 days.

Desktop and portable

Canonical stressed that the 9.04 Desktop Edition adds a number of enhancements that improve the user experience, including a 25-second boot speed, enhanced standby-recovery functionality, intelligent switching between Wi-Fi and 3G, and support for more wireless devices and 3G network adapters.

The new desktop version is an important step for Ubuntu towards mainstream PC users, said canonical operations Executive Janesilber, by providing the latest word processing kits, supporting Skype and adobeflash, and shorter boot times.

Ubuntu9.04 can provide openoffice.org3.0, a suite of instruments that are compatible with Microsoft Office software.

About notebook version Ubuntu9.04netbookremix,canonical said, it has faster boot speed, enhanced power management, intelligent network switching functions, to meet the needs of users.

Users can download and install the Netbookremix directly from the ubuntu.com website. Notebook products that have been completed 9.04 Netbookremix testing include Acer aspireone, Asus EeePC1000, Dell Mini9, and ToshibaNB100.

Server Edition

On the server side, version 9.04 enables organizations to deploy and manage day-to-day tasks more effectively, such as Web sites, printing, databases, mail servers, and so on. Enhancements include virtualization technology with the latest KVM features, support for Samba file servers, and consolidated dovecot-postfix Simple mail server settings.

At present, Canonical has cooperated with many companies, including IBM, Dell, HP and so on, providing 45 midrange servers for Ubuntu9.04 version of the transplant work evaluation.

Ubuntu points out that in the newly released RC version, EXT4 support still has some problems, but the Ubuntu team will solve these problems before the final release.

The release of Ubuntu 9.04 is important for the canonical and Ubuntu teams, driven by the introduction of Windows 7, Snow Leopard, and Fedora 11, which enabled Ubuntu to attract more users, and the October release of Ubuntu 9.10 will also bring Ubuntu a second chance.

In addition, the Ubuntu9.04 server version supports Ubuntuenterprisecloud (UEC), the first commercially available Linux version to build a cloud environment within a corporate firewall. At the same time, after the successful launch of the beta version last year, Ubuntu9.04 now fully supports Amazonelasticcomputecloud (EC2). UEC uses eucalyptus open source systems to enable enterprise testing and deployment to match Amazonec2api's private cloud.