Lucid Alpha 1 – Fewer Games, Installer Changes, Impatient Friendly

By , Published December 14, 2009

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Alpha 1 was released late last week and although very little cosmetically has changed, we've pointed out the obvious changes below.

Update The Installer

The Ubiquity installer comes with one notable change in Alpha 1 €“ an update button! This allows the installer to update itself prior to installation of Ubuntu, fixing any nasty bugs or issues and possibly updating the slide-show in light of changes or tweaks.

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Download Skip

The installer now allows a user to skip the downloading of updates, language packs and other junk during installation.

Fewer Games

We told you a few months back that Lucid would be shipping with less games and Alpha 1 sticks to this by scaling down the included set to just a choice of five fiendishly puzzling selections!

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Breadcrumbs!

The Software Centre gains some nicer-looking breadcrumb buttons.

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Byubo

A new application sat in the System Tools menu is Byubo, which adds some stat info to the bottom of the terminal window.

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Superuser!

Windows that run as root (sudo) now have a €œas super-user€ appendage to the title bar.

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Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

Related posts:

  1. Ubuntu Lucid Lynx Alpha 1 Released [Link Now Live]
  2. Lucid Alpha 1 A Week Away – What To Expect
  3. Fewer Games To Be Included In Ubuntu Lucid Lynx
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  • Anonymous

    Unfortunately on my 8600 I can’t see a thing due to the driver bug. Just have a blank screen.

  • Mohan

    Nice changes, and that is a lot of changes for Alpha 1 I am really surprised. I am testing it out in VirtualBox. Looking forward 10.04. :D

  • http://twitter.com/Mawoon Jeffrey Vandenborne

    Looking good so far! I’m going to wait though, till the official release or at least the RC. I like testing, but the benchmarks on phoronix have really proven the “poor performance start”. Changes are looking good though, that mixed with some transparent RGBA enabled gtk will be great. Just hoping the performance is going to go up a ton before the official release.

  • Anonymous

    Don’t forget about all the system tool are moving from synaptic to ‘Ubuntu softwarecenter’ with a new category. ;)

  • Anonymous

    While none of these are revolutionary (and it is alpha 1), they’re great to see! The finer tweaks are what make all the difference, I think. You could have some big missing pieces, but if what you have works together very fluidly and intuitively, it can make up for that. I didn’t notice these (other than the games) when playing with the alpha iso, so it’s nice to see a rundown, too. Thanks! Keep up the great blog!

  • http://ndrw.me AndrewNoNumbers

    For once, I completely agree with all of these changes!

  • http://twitter.com/geir44 Robo

    Please get the “Authentications” choice back in the menu.

  • http://stevelove.org Steve Love

    Is “Download Skip” mentioned in the Alpha 1 release notes or something? Because I’m pretty sure it was present in the Karmic installation. I distinctly remember choosing to skip the language pack download because it was taking too long when installing 9.10 on my work machine.

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      It may well have been, but it’s certainly the first time i noticed.

      Not installing very often (or paying attention during the actual install bit) means you’re probably right. I only noticed it just as it finished installing.

      • http://stevelove.org Steve Love

        No prob. I just thought maybe I’d gone crazy. :)

    • http://www.linuxmint.com/ Jimbo

      If he is referring to the skip language packs button that appears towards the end of the installation process it has been there for years. :-

  • Anonymous

    cool im looking forward to lucid more than any other previous release!

  • Anonymous

    What is byubo? It looks really cool and didn’t come up easily with a google search.

  • Anonymous

    “A new application sat in the System Tools menu is Byubo, which adds some stat info to the bottom of the terminal window.”

    Byobu does more than that – run it, and then type –help

    You can run a heap of useful commands to get information on your system. I guess it’s in the alpha releases for the developers to get easy access to system info.

  • Narfzilla

    Maybe my graphic tablet will work in this version… : /

    I have to back to 9.04 because this…

  • http://seifsallam.co.cc/ Seif Sallam

    they said that they will remove Mines, but why is it still there :S

    • http://www.linuxmint.com/ Jimbo

      At UDS I believe they talked about it seeming very windows 95, but it has just had a clutter eye candy overhaul, so perhaps upon seeing that they realised it isnt windows 95y anymore. I’m just guessing though.

  • http://www.techsnap.co.uk/ James

    Also, check out your sources.list in nano. It’s colour coded!

  • Navneeth

    People, Byobu ships with Karmic — a fact I learnt from this site.

    Just type byobu in your terminal (working with Gnome Terminal on Ubuntu 9.10 here) and it should appear.

  • http://brettalton.com/ Brett Alton

    You’ve got to talk to Kirkland about Byubo. It’s more than just some stats at the bottom of a terminal, it’s a whole windows manager (think Enlightment, Fluxbox, etc.) for the terminal! You can have multiple terminal tabs open, change the title of each tab, have each tab show different stats (of the server its running on), have different colours depending what server you’re on, etc.

    It’s quite an amazing accomplishment for the CLI community. I use it on any of my servers that are 9.04+ (unfortunately doesn’t run on 8.04 LTS).

    He had a presentation on it for OpenWeek too.

    I saw that it was in the System Tools menu, which will give it good visibility, I’m just not sure how many normal users would use it.

    • monad

      Byobu’s nice, but it’s not *that* amazing. It’s just a really well-done & friendly set of configurations for ‘screen’, which is the program which is actually providing all of that functionality.

      • monad

        A “byobu” is a fancy Japanese screen. Pretty clever name.

  • Mel

    Niiiice!!!! The most important feature here is the ‘update’ button. Wow that makes everything quicker.

    And like motang said those are a lot of changes for an Alpha 1 release!

  • http://tallman9.livejournal.com/ tallman

    It’s called byobu, not byubo