赤信号皆で渡れば怖くない | If everyone crosses against the red light, then there’s nothing to be afraid of.
The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop and Server
editions and Ubuntu Netbook Remix, continuing Ubuntu’s tradition of
integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a
high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution.
Continue reading ‘It’s official! Ubuntu 9.04 has been released.’
In order to use cron to schedule GUI programs you need to set the environment.
An very basic example using zenity and gnome would be this:
Make a script and place it in your home dir…
nano ~/script.sh
Then add these following lines to your script…
#! /bin/sh
/usr/bin/zenity --info --text="Testing 1 2 3!"
Make sure it is executable…
chmod +x ~/script.sh
Then edit your cron tab…
crontab -e
And finally add the following line…
*/10 * * * * env DISPLAY=:0 /home/username/script.sh
Voila!
This will ultimately display a popup within gnome every 10 minutes.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CronHowto
Additional thanks to ucupx 
Two steps I stumbled upon via the Ubuntu Forums..
1: Purge empty entries in the Firefox database
find ~/.mozilla/firefox/ -type f -name "*.sqlite" -exec sqlite3 {} VACUUM \;
Run the above perhaps once a month.
2: Add the following to the bottom of your ~/.bashrc file
export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1
This disables pango rendering.
The Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jakalope Release Candidate is out.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2009-April/000121.html
Almost there 
