Ubuntu 9.04, codenamed Jaunty Jackalope, has reached the beta testing stage. The beta release, which was made available for download last week, provides users with an opportunity to get an early look at the features that will be included in the new version of the popular Linux distribution.
Ubuntu 9.04 includes GNOME 2.26, the latest version of the open source GNOME desktop environment. We did some hands-on testing with the new GNOME release when it arrived earlier this month. GNOME typically represents a large chunk of the user-visible improvements in new Ubuntu releases, but there isn’t really anything particularly exciting for Ubuntu users in GNOME 2.26.
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