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While everybody is enjoying Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex), the new release of the Ubuntu operating system, somewhere deep in the Ubuntu headquarters, the developers are working hard to bring us all the new stuff that happens in the Linux world today.

Two days late, but it’s here – the alpha versions of Ubuntu 9.04 (codename Jaunty Jackalope), which is scheduled for release in late April, was uploaded a couple of hours ago on the official mirrors. As usual, we’ve downloaded a copy of it, and we intend to keep you up-to-date with the latest changes in the Ubuntu 9.04 development.

As the development team did not prepare a Live CD for this first alpha version of Ubuntu 9.04, we had to install the Alternate edition. As you can see from the below screenshots, there’s nothing new on the surface… the same wallpaper, same GNOME version as in Ubuntu 8.10. Under the hood, some of the packages were updated, while others are the same builds as the ones in Intrepid. Oh, and no, there’s still no OpenOffice.org 3.0 (it will be available in the next releases).

The system is fast as usual, with no major problems at the moment, except for the Ekiga software, which crashed the first time we started it. Anyway, the truth is that no one expects something exciting from the first, or even the second, alpha of a new Ubuntu release… Probably starting with the third or fourth alpha, which will be available next year, we will see some big changes, like that professional theme everyone is waiting for.

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