This note is just to confirm that the support period for Ubuntu 9.04 formally ended on Friday, October 23, 2010, and Ubuntu Security Notices no longer includes information or updated packages for Ubuntu 9.04.

Ubuntu announced its 9.04 release almost 18 months ago, on April 23, 2009. As with the earlier releases, Ubuntu committed to ongoing security and critical fixes for a period of 18 months.

r Ubuntu 9.04 users, the time has come to say goodbye to the Jaunty Jackalope release of the popular Ubuntu operating system. One month from today, on October 23rd, it reaches end of life.

You could easily install Thunderbird 3.1 in Ubuntu using Ubuntuzilla, but that was only available for 32bit users. A PPA repository is now available which provides the latest Thunderbird 3.1.1 (final, not daily builds) for Ubuntu Lucid – both 32bit and 64bit.

According to a posting on the Ubuntu developers mailing list, Ubuntu developers are planning to push the next release of Firefox, 3.6.4, to the current Ubuntu release, Lucid Lynx 10.04, and to older versions such as Hardy (8.04LTS), Jaunty (9.04) and Karmic Koala (9.10). These older versions currently have Firefox 3.0 and xulrunner 1.9 both [...]

As part of virtualization on Hyper-V, there is the ability to use Para-virtualized drivers instead of using built-in drivers for slower, emulated devices. Para-virtualized drivers are simply device drivers that are written for native virtual devices.

Now we have our assortment of system benchmarks to publish from the Long-Term Support releases of Ubuntu 6.06.1, Ubuntu 8.04.4, and an Ubuntu 10.04 development snapshot. In this article, we are looking at how Ubuntu’s performance has evolved over the past four years.

Bweb is a perl based web program that provides a tool to do basic operations and get statistics. It obtains its information from your catalog database and the bconsole program.

The update patches 5 important security issues (see below for details) discovered in the Linux kernel packages by various hackers. Therefore, it is strongly recommended to update your system as soon as possible

Canonical announced a few hours ago the immediate availability of a new Linux kernel security update for the following Ubuntu distributions: 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake), 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron), 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex), 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) and 9.10 (Karmic Koala).

I wanted to play with writing Android apps on my home Linux computer, which is currently running Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope). These are mostly notes for myself, so don’t feel guilty if you skip this post.

I wanted to play with writing Android apps on my home Linux computer, which is currently running Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope). These are mostly notes for myself, so don’t feel guilty if you skip this post.

Newest Mozilla email client Thunderbird 3 was released a few days ago,and now only the tar file available for download.However,I’m not like compiling this from the source code.

For the past one year we have been running the site on a Ubuntu Hardy server, however, we have now made the switch to Karmic Koala, for several reasons.

Ubuntu 9.04 used to allow you to fully disable the touchpad through the System -> Preferences -> Mouse -> Touchpad menu. In 9.10 this has been replaced with a ‘Disable touchpad while typing’ option, which I find inadequate in several cases.

Ubuntu-Tweak is a great ubuntu utility that has a strong functionality such as add and remove apps,edit sources/third-party sources,free up disk space by removing unneeded packages,configure auto-start apps,configure desktop icons,windows,Compiz Fusion and gnome things and so on.

Fed up with my Karmic fate, I just took the easiest escape route – reinstall good ol’ Jaunty Jackalope

Sometime during the Ubuntu 9.04 release, Canonical added a 60-second delay when Reboot or Shutdown was selected. At that time it was at least possible to go to the “User Switcher Preferences” and disable the delay. Now, with the 9.10 release, that disable option seems to have disappeared

For the average business or personal computer user, Ubuntu is one of the easy to use free Linux operating systems which makes for a much more stable and pleasant user experience than the infamous Microsoft Windows. It thus comes as a surprise, to have a headache with an Ubuntu upgrade.

This guide will help you to upgrade from Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope to 9.10 Karmic Koala. This tutorial has total of 13 steps with appropriate screen shots.

Yesterday the new Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) was released. This guide shows how you can upgrade your Ubuntu 9.04 desktop and server installations to Ubuntu 9.10.

This tutorial explains how to install and use Back In Time on an Ubuntu 9.04 desktop. Back In Time is a simple backup tool for Linux inspired from “flyback project” and “TimeVault”. The backup is done by taking snapshots of a specified set of directories.

Hot on the heals of the final release of the Karmic Koala, we’ve put together a video montage of 64-bit versions of Microsoft’s Vista and Windows 7 operating systems booting alongside Canonical’s Ubuntu 9.04 and 9.10. Watch all four at once and see which one wins!

The web server (I just built it yesterday, actually, to run the Joomla! CMS to which I’m porting our distinctly unfriendly district website) was running 9.04. The netbook was running a beta of 9.10. Both cheerfully told me this morning that an upgrade to Version 9.10 was available.

With your Ubuntu LAMP Server up and running (see my previous article “Installing Ubuntu Server 9.04” and “How to: install a LAMP server“) and you are ready to set it up as a mail server. For the longest time Sendmail was the de facto standard Linux mail server.

As of Ubuntu 9.04 (aka Jaunty Jackelope), it is no longer necessary to jump through hoops to access files on an Ubuntu (or Debian) server from a Macintosh OS X client via netatalk.

Thanks to the Dell fanboys and girls who submitted requests to the IdeaStorm project, the computer manufacturer decided to honor its customers’ requests and now you can get your Dell computer with a custom version of Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope).

nova media today unveiled a mobile Internet connection manager for Ubuntu 9.04 and 8.10, called ‘launch2net’. This sleek little program includes all necessary drivers to work with many 3G USB modems and offers a convenient interface to connect to the internet.

This post takes you through the steps to install Apache 2.2.11 on Ubuntu 9.04 64 bit and make it work with Weblogic 10.3. The post walks through the steps that I followed, the problems that I faced and the solutions ( er..hacks) to get them resolved.

Ubuntu is now an officially support Operating system for ColdFusion 9. This is a guide on installing Apache and ColdFusion 9 on a clean install of Ubuntu 9.04. This starts with a clean install on Ubuntu 9.04 with no additional options selected during the install.