Ubuntu 10.10 Alpha 1 Is Ready for Testing
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While Ubuntu fans out there still discover and enjoy the brand-new Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) operating system, somewhere deep in the Ubuntu headquarters, the Canonical developers are working on the next major update for their popular Linux distribution.
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The release schedule has been changed again to 3 Alpha releases, one Beta version, and a Release Candidate. Because of this, the final release of Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) will be available sooner, on Sunday October 10th, 2010!
What's new in Ubuntu 10.10 Alpha 1? Well, not much! The developers said that the GNOME version was now 2.31.x (current development version), but it appears that all the GNOME packages are still at version 2.30, the one used in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. The Evolution e-mail client was updated to version 2.30.1.2 and it is now much faster than the one in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. Last but not least, the kernel packages were upgraded to version 2.6.34-5.12, based on Linux kernel 2.6.34. This is how Ubuntu 10.10 Alpha 1 looks like... Full Story |
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