Anyone using Ubuntu 9.04?

[Bill Bogstad]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 7:55 PM, David Kramer <david-8uUts6sDVDvs2Lz0fTdYFQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I was thinking of upgrading my laptop this weekend.  It sounds pretty
> stable.
>
> If you're using it, did you do a fresh install or an upgrade from Ibex?
>
> I read one disturbing thing from
> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/Ubuntu-904-the-Jaunty-Jackalope-Sports-Modest-Software-Improvements-But-Big-Plans-535187/?kc=EWKNLLIN04282009STR1
>
> "Also along the lines of making its graphics configuration less arcane,
> 9.04 is the first Ubuntu release to do away with the Vulcan-death-grip
> Ctrl-Alt-Backspace key combination that you can use on most Linux
> distributions to dislodge misbehaving graphical applications by killing
> your X server session. Once upon a time, this came in handy fairly
> often, and the fact that it's become an anachronism is a mark of Linux's
> maturity."
>
> Huh??!!  WTF would they remove the ability to kill the X server?  I
> don't care how damn stable they say it is, sometimes you get a
> hard-to-kill process and you just want to nuke from orbit without a
> complete restart.  Sometimes when I lose sound and I don't know what's
> got a hold of the device, that's my only recourse.  Can someone confirm
> this blasphemy for me?

Err the official release notes for 9.04 say it's true (about half way
down the page)

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/904

> ext4 sounds too risky for me, though better handling of big files would
> be handy on my MythTV drives.

I've been using XFS for that for almost two? years now.

Bill Bogstad