For the Linux fans well here are some news about the most used distro available "Ubuntu"

Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope Release Schedule:

• November 20th, 2008 - Alpha 1 release
• December 18th, 2008 - Alpha 2 release
• January 15th, 2009 - Alpha 3 release
• February 5th, 2009 - Alpha 4 release
• February 26th, 2009 - Alpha 5 release (available at time of writing)
  
• March 12th, 2009 - Alpha 6 release
• March 26th, 2009 - Beta release
• April 16th, 2009 - Release Candidate
• April 23rd, 2009 - Final release of Ubuntu 9.04

Changes include a new theme for the login screen, a new world map, and some more updates.
The GNOME desktop environment has been updated to version 2.26 Beta, as well as most of its components. Among the applications that are part of this fifth alpha of Ubuntu 9.04, we can notice OpenOffice.org 3.0.1, Brasero 2.25.91, Mozilla Firefox 3.0.6, Ekiga 3.0.1, Transmission 1.51. The kernel packages were updated to version 2.6.28-8.26, based on Linux kernel 2.6.28.7. And lastly, the popular GParted 0.4.3 (Gnome Partition Editor) was added in this fifth alpha and includes support for the EXT4 filesystem. With this version of GParted you will be able to format your drives with the EXT4 filesystem.

PS: yes you've guessed it... that picture is a Jackalope :))