When I moved to 9.04, everything worked fine, the installation and the first boot were just as they should be, until I realised that there is a huge bug in the Intel video drivers which wont allow me to use compiz, plus will crash my system once in a while for the fun of it, just because I was using to fast Alt+Tab.
There are way too many issues with the new version, which wont allow you to properly use your deskptop/laptop. The idea behind is that the boot times are super good, the desktop times are just shit.

Anyway, I do hope that in the next couple of days or weeks they will fix the major bugs and this new release will look more like a Linux then a Windows, well actually behave more like a Linux then a Windows

Cheers!

Now, when it comes to boot performance and overall performance, the guys really did their job, Ubuntu boots in +/- 20 seconds, even on a netbook. I have tested this distro manly on a netbook, because I really need to switch my normal work laptop, which is running on Ubuntu 8.04, to this new release. I need it to see if even a netbook can handle it and if it can handle it, how well it will actually work. To my surprise, Ubuntu 9.04, handles and works super well, out of the box on my Acer Aspire One. The netbook test overall was perfect, with one minor thing… the Intel graphics drivers have some weird issue and do not really work quite well with flash videos or movies in general, but as I was reading in some forums, seems this is some kind of a bug coming from Intel and again I suppose will be fixed sooner or later. This only means I will need to watch YouTube.com, videos or some movies on my other 2 laptops (sick isn’t it, 3 laptops and one server).

The other cool part of this new release is the notification area and its style, which was changed by the guys from Ubuntu development team and which really rocks. I don’t think is fully finished or polished, but the idea overall is super cool and gives a very nice touch to Gnome and of course to Ubuntu.

To be honest the release is a great success, it has the speed, it has a lot of improvements and new packages, some nice design and style touched, even if it would need much more, but it has what it needs and if Ubuntu will continue this way, we might see a blooming Linux in the end-user department.

I know that Ubuntu could and can deliver more then this release, but maybe there is a reason for this small delays and the only thing we can do is hope that the next release will look better, perform better and have much more packages and stuff added into it to make even a Windows lover move to Linux.

Until next time… check out Ubuntu, try it and leave a comment if necessary, Cheers!

Also in this new release, the guys from Ubuntu development team work hard to improve the boot times, support for more hardware which included Wacom tablets, better support for dual-screen, nVidia and ATI graphic cards and so on.

I’m not sure how better this new release is, as I haven’t tested it yet, but I hope this week I will have the possibility to do a test and write some conclusions about it.

Go and get Ubuntu’s latest release from Ubuntu’s Web Site: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download

Until then, keep on reading… and stay tuned!

Anyway, wait a bit more and it will be release and I hope after is gonna be release, I’m gonna write some feedback on it. Stay tuned and check back later.

Cheers!