"On a western hillside, a pack of hungry coyotes flushed their prey from a thicket of scrub mesquite. With gleeful yips, they began pursuing what first appeared to be a large jack rabbit. But what was this thing? In between its long ears, the animal was sporting a set of small antlers similar to those of an antelope. Darting first to the left, and then to the right, it reached the bottom of the hill where it put on a burst of speed and quickly outran the trailing coyotes. Once at a safe distance, the creature stopped, turned around and emitted several coyote-like yips in a rude mockery of its hapless pursuers. The sounds seemed to linger tauntingly upon the air as the discouraged pack abandoned the chase. From this small episode, the artful and elusive jackalope emerged from the shadows of an Old West legend."
-- "Song of the Jackalope", Roy Campbell "Fast as fast can be, you'll never catch me!" -- Dave Coulier Welcome to Jaunty Jackalope Alpha 1, which will in time become Ubuntu 9.04. Pre-releases of Jaunty are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stable system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even frequent breakage. They are, however, recommended for Ubuntu developers and those who want to help in testing, reporting, and fixing bugs. Alpha 1 is the first in a series of milestone CD images that will be released throughout the Jaunty development cycle. The Alpha images are known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD build or installer bugs, while representing a very recent snapshot of Jaunty. You can download it here: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/jaunty/alpha-1/ (Ubuntu) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/jaunty/alpha-1/ (Kubuntu) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/jaunty/alpha-1/ (Xubuntu) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/jaunty/alpha-1/ (Ubuntu Studio) See http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mirrors for a list of mirrors. 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 (http://www.ubuntu.com/news/arm-linux), 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. If you're interested in following the changes as we further develop Jaunty, have a look at the jaunty-changes mailing list: http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/jaunty-changes We also suggest that you subscribe to the ubuntu-devel-announce list if you're interested in following Ubuntu development. This is a low-traffic list (a few posts a week) carrying announcements of approved specifications, policy changes, alpha releases, and other interesting events. http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce Bug reports should go to the Ubuntu bug tracker: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu Enjoy, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On behalf of the Ubuntu release team
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