Ubuntu, another choice

Last week Canonical released its latest version of Linux operating-system; Ubuntu 9.04 – Jaunty Jackalope. After downloading the iso, I decided to take Jaunty Jackalope for a whirl and see for myself how this new edition fits in the family. However, this is not a complete review of this release considering the fact that I haven't spent much time on this yet since I've installed it less than 24 hours ago. The most appreciated improvement is the boot-time performance by improving start-up process and with the inclusion of ext4 – it's impressive. However, ext3 is still the default filesystem in this release, but you can choose ext4 as your filesystem during the installation. Speed is one of the most obvious difference that you will notice in comparison with other releases of Ubuntu – I'm not insinuating that other releases were sluggish but this one is just 'fast'. The whole desktop experience is really great. The system is fast and responsive without any jerkines...

Xvoice Xvoice Project on Sourceforge Xvoice-sphinx project Xvoice CVS repository Frequently Asked Questions SourceForge documentation Mailing lists Xvoice enables continuous speech dictation and speech control of most X applications. To convert users' speech into text it uses the IBM ViaVoice speech recognition engine, which is distributed separately (see below). When in dictation mode Xvoice passes this text directly to the currently focused X application. When in command mode, Xvoice matches the speech with predefined, user-modifieable, key sequences or commands. For instance "list" would match "ls -l" when commanding the console, so that when the user says "list" "ls -l" will be sent to the console as if the user had typed it. This figure shows a typical session with Xvoice. Recognised (and some rejected) speech can be seen on the right pane. Currently active vocabularies are listed on the left. The appli...