Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha 1

Colin Watson has announced the first alpha release of Ubuntu 9.04, code name "Jaunty Jackalope": "Welcome to Jaunty Jackalope Alpha 1, which will in time become Ubuntu 9.04. The primary changes from Intrepid have been the re-merging of changes from Debian. We've also been spending some time getting the new ARM port up and running, although its build daemons are still catching up so installable images will have to wait for a future alpha release. This is the very first roughly working set of images off the production line, and they haven't all been tested, so you should expect some bugs. Prominent among these are that some of the images are oversized and can only be tested using a DVD or a virtual machine, and that the desktop CD isn't ready yet! This release consists only of the alternate and server CDs; the desktop CD will follow in the next Alpha release." Here is the full release announcement. Download (MD5) the installation CD images from here: jaunty-alternate-i386.iso (699MB), jaunty-alternate-amd64.iso (700MB). Also released today were the 9.04 alpha 1 images for Kubuntu (download), Xubuntu (download), Ubuntu Studio (download) and Mythbuntudownload). (