Ubuntu 9.04 Beta Released

by Wyatt Walter

The beta for the next version of Ubuntu, 9.04 was released today. Version 9.04 alpha 1 was released in November of 2008 and has gone through 6 alphas and now in the beta phase of the release. This release focuses mostly on boot speed and the integration of local applications with web applications.

The new version also includes an upgrade to X.org 1.6, the Linux kernel version 2.6.28 as well as support for ext4.