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Ubuntu 10.10 released

[Posted October 10, 2010 by corbet]

From:  Robbie Williamson <robbie-AT-ubuntu.com>
To:  ubuntu-announce-AT-lists.ubuntu.com
Subject:  Ubuntu 10.10 is Released
Date:  Sun, 10 Oct 2010 11:10:10 +0100
Message-ID:  <1286705410.6217.236.camel@robbiew-laptop>

Some time ago a group of hyper-intelligent pan dimensional beings
decided to finally answer the great question of Life, The Universe and
Everything.  To this end, a small band of these Debians built an
incredibly powerful distribution, Ubuntu. After this great computer
programme had run (a very quick 3 million minutes...or 6 years) the
answer was announced.  The Ultimate answer to Life, the Universe and
Everything is...42, and in its' purest form 101010.  Which suggests that
what you really need to know is 'What was the Question?'.  The great
distribution kindly pointed out that what the problem really was that
no-one knew the question. Accordingly, the distribution designed a set
of successors, marked by a circle of friends...to ultimately bring Unity
to all things living...Ubuntu 10.10, to find the question to the
ultimate answer.

And with that, the Ubuntu team is pleased to announce Ubuntu 10.10.
Codenamed "Maverick Meerkat", 10.10 continues Ubuntu's proud tradition
of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a
high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution.

Read more about the features of Ubuntu 10.10 in the following press
releases:

  Desktop and Netbook editions 
    http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-10.10-desktop-edition
  Server edition     
    http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-10.10-server-edition

Canonical has also launched the ?Ubuntu Server on Cloud 10' program.
Anyone will be able to try out Ubuntu 10.10 Server Edition on Amazon EC2
for free for one hour. Visitors to the download pages will now be able
to choose to experience the ease and speed of public cloud computing and
Ubuntu.  For a direct link to the trial, please go to
http://10.cloud.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu 10.10 will be supported for 18 months on desktops, netbooks, and
servers.  

Thanks to the efforts of the global translation community, Ubuntu is
available in 37 languages.  For a list of supported languages and
detailed
translation statistics for these and other languages, see:

  http://people.ubuntu.com/~dpm/ubuntu-10.10-translation-st...

Ubuntu 10.10 is also the basis for new 10.10 releases of Kubuntu,
Xubuntu, Edubuntu, UbuntuStudio, and Mythbuntu:

        Kubuntu  http://kubuntu.org/news/10.10-release
        Xubuntu  http://xubuntu.org/news/10.10-release
       Edubuntu  http://edubuntu.org/news/10.10-release
      Mythbuntu  http://mythbuntu.org/10.10/release
  Ubuntu Studio  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/10.10release_notes

To Get Ubuntu 10.10
-------------------

To download Ubuntu 10.10, or obtain CDs, visit:

  http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu

Users of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS will be offered an automatic upgrade to 10.10
via Update Manager.  For further information about upgrading, see:

  http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading

As always, upgrades to the latest version of Ubuntu are entirely free of
charge.

We recommend that all users read the release notes, which document
caveats and workarounds for known issues.  They are available at:

  http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/1010

Find out what's new in this release with a graphical overview:

  http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/1010overview

If you have a question, or if you think you may have found a bug but
aren't sure, try asking on the #ubuntu IRC channel, on the Ubuntu Users
mailing list, or on the Ubuntu forums:

  #ubuntu on irc.freenode.net
  http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users
  http://www.ubuntuforums.org/

Helping Shape Ubuntu
--------------------

If you would like to help shape Ubuntu, take a look at the list of ways
you can participate at:

  http://www.ubuntu.com/community/participate/

About Ubuntu
------------

Ubuntu is a full-featured Linux distribution for desktops, laptops,
netbooks and servers, with a fast and easy installation and regular
releases.  A tightly-integrated selection of excellent applications is
included, and an incredible variety of add-on software is just a few
clicks away.

Professional services including support are available from Canonical and
hundreds of other companies around the world.  For more information
about support, visit:

  http://www.ubuntu.com/support

More Information
----------------

You can find out more about Ubuntu and about this release on our
website:

  http://www.ubuntu.com/

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Ubuntu                                         robbiew[irc.freenode.net]

"You can't be lucky all the time, but you can be smart everyday" 
 -Mos Def

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Confidence is knowing no one else is better than you." -Me ;)


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Ubuntu 10.10 released

Posted Oct 11, 2010 4:24 UTC (Mon) by drumsfeld (guest, #70557) [Link] (14 responses)

Looks like Ubuntu has the Linux desktop going in the right direction and deserves credit.

Everyone knows Ubuntu ended Linux install-hell with Synaptic (Thanks Redhat for your time).

Finally, a real company is using Software Engineering to fix the broken Gnome and make it work.

Ubuntu One is a good concept worth trying, and my Acer netbook will give Unity a try.

Only problem with Ubuntu is these lame "Maverick Meerkat" names for versions.

Ubuntu 10.10 released

Posted Oct 11, 2010 7:02 UTC (Mon) by spaetz (guest, #32870) [Link] (3 responses)

a) if that codename is your only problem you have with Ubuntu, they are doing really well :-).
b) that's only used as a code name running up to the release, or did you see any meerkat being metioned in the release notes?

Ubuntu 10.10 released

Posted Oct 11, 2010 7:03 UTC (Mon) by spaetz (guest, #32870) [Link] (1 responses)

OK, forgive me, it IS being mentioned in the release notes. I blame the lack of coffee.

Ubuntu 10.10 released

Posted Oct 11, 2010 20:05 UTC (Mon) by johnflux (guest, #58833) [Link]

The name is also in /etc/apt/sources.list which always confuses me when I have to edit the file.

Ubuntu 10.10 released

Posted Oct 11, 2010 16:46 UTC (Mon) by MattPerry (guest, #46341) [Link]

> that's only used as a code name running up to the release

No it's not. One only needs to spend a little bit of time in Ubuntu circles, such as the forums, IRC, or the wiki, to see that nearly everyone uses the names rather than the version numbers. Canonical may use the version numbers, but the names have become the de facto identifier.

Ubuntu 10.10 released

Posted Oct 11, 2010 7:06 UTC (Mon) by pranith (subscriber, #53092) [Link] (9 responses)

<quote>Everyone knows Ubuntu ended Linux install-hell with Synaptic</quote>

Are you serious?

Ubuntu 10.10 released

Posted Oct 11, 2010 7:49 UTC (Mon) by Frej (guest, #4165) [Link] (5 responses)

Seems like a troll.
He also says,

>Finally, a real company is using Software Engineering to fix the broken Gnome and make it work.

And his acer netbook is a sentient being.

>and my Acer netbook will give Unity a try.

Ubuntu 10.10 released

Posted Oct 11, 2010 8:12 UTC (Mon) by tdwebste (guest, #18154) [Link] (4 responses)

Well said, He is definitely trolling with statements like that.

Synaptic is eye candy for apt.

Ubuntu 10.10 released

Posted Oct 11, 2010 8:30 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (2 responses)

And both, of course, originated in Debian. :)

Synaptic developers

Posted Oct 11, 2010 9:21 UTC (Mon) by sladen (guest, #27402) [Link] (1 responses) 

$ wget -O- http://packages.debian.org/.../synaptic_0.70~pre1/changelog.txt | grep '^ --' | cut -d\  -f3-5 | sort | uniq -c
      1 James Vega <jamessan@debian.org>
      1 Loic Minier <lool@dooz.org>
      1 Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com>
    112 Michael Vogt <michael.vogt@ubuntu.com>
    131 Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>
It would appear from the above that ninety-nine percent of uploads listed in that changelog (244/246) are by people who presently appear to have an @ubuntu.com email address.

Synaptic developers

Posted Oct 11, 2010 14:16 UTC (Mon) by joey (guest, #328) [Link]

Synaptic was developed by a Debian developer, in cooperation with the author of windowmaker, 4 entire years before Ubuntu did anything. It is heavily based on apt, a technology that was developed by a Debian developer long before that.

The debian changelog you downloaded records uploads made to Debian (or Ubuntu). It is not often a good measure of the work involved in developing a program.

Ubuntu 10.10 released

Posted Oct 11, 2010 8:34 UTC (Mon) by tcourbon (guest, #60669) [Link]

Why would I deny some candy for my eyes ?

Eye candy ain't an insult, I guess.

I'd say Ubuntu Software Centre was a bigger step anyway.

Posted Oct 11, 2010 10:58 UTC (Mon) by gmatht (guest, #58961) [Link] (2 responses)

When I first tried Debian, RedHat didn't have yum, so apt sounded really promising. However, I was on dialup, and so downloading a package could take a few hours during which the apt database was locked and I couldn't do any other tasks (even query which packages were installed). I decided rpm hell was less annoying than this and went back to Mandrake.

Now I find the ability of the USC to queue package management tasks really nice, even though I have ADSL2+. OTOH, I personally didn't find synaptic that revolutionary, particularly given the similar "adept" package manager came first.

I'd say Ubuntu Software Centre was a bigger step anyway.

Posted Oct 11, 2010 14:19 UTC (Mon) by joey (guest, #328) [Link] (1 responses)

Apt has never, to my knowledge, prevented query operations while a download was in progress. And I used it on dialup for years and still do occasionally.

I may have been using a GUI.

Posted Oct 11, 2010 18:43 UTC (Mon) by gmatht (guest, #58961) [Link]

The most logical way of querying installed packages would have been to use dpkg, which wouldn't be affected by apt-get downloading. Some of the GUIs won't start if they can't get a lock though. In any case, I find queuing quite handy.

Ubuntu 10.10 released

Posted Oct 11, 2010 9:09 UTC (Mon) by zzxtty (guest, #45175) [Link] (4 responses)

I seem to recall that imminent incoming IP innovation was the given reason for moving the window decorations from the RHS to LHS. From the few screen shots I've seen the RHS of the title bar is still vast, open, empty space. Is there any news on this? Could we not perhaps drop in a nice animation of some tumble weed if the changes are still in development?

Okay, okay, that change may have annoyed me slightly. It made me switch to Fedora, although having seen the screen shots of gnome 4 I may have to give KDE a look. Why does everyone want to copy the mac interface? Does it not occur to these people that if they want to use a mac desktop they could save themselves some hassle and perhaps buy a mac?

Mr Grumpy - off to drink some coffee

Top-left hand corner

Posted Oct 11, 2010 9:42 UTC (Mon) by sladen (guest, #27402) [Link] (3 responses)

On Ubuntu Netbook Edition, the menus may appear to be in the top-left corner—which is handy as widescreen netbooks have a severe lack of pixels in the vertical direction. I found a screenshot about halfway down the following page ("Music streaming to your phone") which shows this in use: Is that what you were thinking of?

Top-left hand corner

Posted Oct 11, 2010 10:51 UTC (Mon) by zzxtty (guest, #45175) [Link] (2 responses)

Thanks, it looks like this is just about condensing the application and desktop menu bar into one, like the Mac. It's something I find rather awkward, but maybe that's because I've been using computers for so long. I don't expect there to be a huge gap between my application and it's menu, and if my application is maximised how do I get to my desktop menu? Oh well, I don't work in interface design, the last time I did knock up a GUI it looked like something had been sick on my monitor!

Top-left hand corner

Posted Oct 11, 2010 10:52 UTC (Mon) by DOT (subscriber, #58786) [Link]

It's only for the netbook interface, where every application is maximized. There is no gap.

Top-left hand corner

Posted Oct 11, 2010 22:13 UTC (Mon) by jmm82 (guest, #59425) [Link]

It actually works nice for a netbook because you can't have more than one application open on the screen at the same time. it took me a few days to get used to, but I like it.

My only complaint with Unity is that the top bar appears to be s gnome panel, but it does not allow right click to add or remove applets. This is done on purpose as stated by the rocket-man himself. It appears Unity is targeted at a non Linux user base and in that case many people get confused when they accidentally add or remove applets from the panel. I do not buy it, they could maybe just make it more difficult to enable. I am hoping that there is a method to override this non-feature!

EC2 free trial

Posted Oct 11, 2010 16:02 UTC (Mon) by adamgundy (subscriber, #5418) [Link]

this doesn't seem to have gotten much publicity, but Canonical are offering a free trial of 10.10 server on EC2 - basically they'll pay for an EC2 'small' instance for an hour for you to play with...

https://10.cloud.ubuntu.com/

you do need to sign up (or use a launchpad login).

Ubuntu 10.10 released

Posted Oct 11, 2010 18:03 UTC (Mon) by xxiao (guest, #9631) [Link] (2 responses)

Love Ubuntu, do they have a donate/paypal button?
Windows at work is only for outlook/calendar, everything else is done in Ubuntu/vncviewer.
Windows at home is only for netflix(which is rarely used), everything else works with Ubuntu smoothly.
Well done.

Ubuntu 10.10 released

Posted Oct 11, 2010 21:36 UTC (Mon) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639) [Link] (1 responses)

Yes Canonical does have a donate to you Ubuntu button.

http://www.ubuntu.com/community/get-involved/donate

Ubuntu 10.10 released

Posted Oct 12, 2010 12:56 UTC (Tue) by xxiao (guest, #9631) [Link]

got it. thanks!

Ubuntu 10.10 released

Posted Oct 17, 2010 23:08 UTC (Sun) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]

Just tested the live CD: Intel GPUs are still crashing when using XV.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+source/xserver-x...
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Bugs/Lucidi8xxFreezes

So for this 10.10 release they disabled the Intel drivers and forced the (slow) FBdev instead.


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