New in Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04
30. Mar 2009 
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I’m upgrading to the Jaunty beta tonight and taking a look at what’s new in the package rep.
Aside from thinkfinger breaking and Xorg not coming up right away, things went pretty well. The thinkfinger tools verify my finger so it seems like something related to PAM. Meh, in tablet mode it will be lame to unlock my screen but that’s all I use biometrics for ATM.
Meaningless statistic: compared to hardy, there are fewer new packages (about 1500 fewer in intrepid to jaunty than gutsy to hardy).
- mrpt - Mobile robot programming toolkit
The Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit (MRPT) is an extensive, cross-platform, and open source C++ library aimed to help robotics researchers to design and implement algorithms (mainly) in the fields of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), computer vision, and motion planning (obstacle avoidance). The priorities are efficiency and reusability of code. - Ever wanted to karaoke on Linux? Performous is in universe. (Never used it but sounds interesting. Website is down.)
- The openoffice presenter console is in universe. Dual screen presentations with presentation notes, next and current slide on one; just current slide on the other.
See the complete details here: newpkgs-jaunty. It’s a gnumeric file with the new packages listed in three columns: package, section and description.
Well said.