Ubuntu 11.04 is going to be named the Natty Narwhal

Re:Ubuntu 11.04 is going to be named the Natty Narwhal by dotBen on Tuesday August 17, 2010 @06:14PM (#1612635)

I'm a big fan of Ubuntu (server and slowly trying to ween off OSX onto Ubuntu Desktop) and their regular release cycle is actually reassuring -- I've never had major problems when upgrading, although I keep all my production servers -1 LTS (all currently 8.04).

I'm not sure, however, what the big differences are between releases on the server side (lots of improvement on desktop, sure). All I see is slowly growing memory footprint but little performance gains or other benefits. Anyone have a thought?

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Re:Ubuntu 11.04 is going to be named the Natty Narwhal by Andys on Tuesday August 17, 2010 @06:44PM (#1612687)

For what its worth, Server 10.04 boots dramatically faster than 8.04. I've been able to reboot a VM in under 10 seconds (timed from typing "reboot" to getting a login prompt again)

The main reason to upgrade Server, though, is to get access to a new generation of packages which are considered stable. The stuff you get in 8.04, while reliable, is getting long in the tooth features-wise.

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