Canonical announced that Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop Edition is free to download from Thursday 23 April. Ubuntu 9.04 features OpenOffice.org 3.0, which gives users a complete office suite that is entirely compatible with Microsoft Office.

There is also a new notification system.  It seems 9.04 is not a great leap from 8.10. There are three versions including netbook version.

P.S. During update from 8.10 to 9.04, I forgot to keep my old menu.lst, which includes boot from my XP. Currently I only got Ubuntu 9.04. Have to edit menu.lst to add it.Testing result of 9.04 was pretty good. At least all popular video format were recognised by 9.04.

26/04/2009 p.s. again. fixed menu.lst and my XP appeared again. I start to like Ubuntu very much now.

13/05/2009 p.s. more. got a bug which seems usual for old Asus P4800 motherboard. Invalid PBLK Length 5 etc. Do not know how to fix it. But it does not matter when boot up system. Found very useful Instant Messenger tool in Ubuntu 9.04, which combine QQ, MSN, Google Talk, ICQ, you name it. Amule and BT also my favourite tools.