Ubuntu Linux 9.04 – Technical Details

“I’d like to give a quick update on the technical details for
what we have added with our 9.04 release. We have continued to
build and improve upon on what we did for our previous Ubuntu
offerings, and here are some of the highlights:

* We now provide Cyberlink’s PowerDVD application for DVD playback
(instead of LinDVD which we previously shipped). We also continue
to provide Fluendo GStreamer codecs for mp3, wma, and wmv playback,
which will work with your favorite Linux media player.
* We created and provided a new GUI tool for creating
recovery/restore media for the OS
* We provide a new method to recover your Ubuntu preload from the
hard drive
* We have chosen to use GRUB 2 bootloader instead of the Ubuntu
default GRUB 1 (a.k.a. GRUB legacy) bootloader. We have been
testing GRUB 2 for over a year now, and feel it is ready for
general use. The Ubuntu community has decided to make GRUB 2 the
default in Ubuntu 9.10, so our customers will already have that
feature enabled.”

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