Maverick Beta hits tomorrow

By , Published September 2, 2010

Well, for some of you readers, it’s already the 2nd of September, and the Beta release of 10.10 is out today. Originally, this was scheduled to be Alpha 4, but the Maverick Release schedule was slightly altered a few weeks ago to give a bit more time to “Release Quality” (read:bug hunting and rough edges).

For those of you already up to date and on the bleeding edge of Maverick, just keep updating like you have been.

For those of you wanting to break your Lucid Lynx install (I kid, I kid. It’s fairly stable), then please do a backup of anything important using your standard method, and probably don’t do it on your primary PC if you need it for work or whatever.

At some point in the next 12-24 hours, the Beta will be out and live, and ready to download. Then all you need to do is press ALT-F2, type in “update-manager -d” and update away!

Remember, the Beta is not the full release, so even though most users will have a fantastic time with their new features, some things might very well break, and painfully so. Please don’t blame us, it’s your computer.

The release candidate will be out on September 30th, and the full release is scheduled for October 10th.

Check back in tomorrow to get some of our reactions and some info about what the Beta looks and feels like.

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  • Anonymous

    Wow, already? Well, I’ve been on Kubuntu Maverick for a bit now, but the Beta’s already here- about half of the time I get on the Beta, as it tends to work out pretty well. Still safer than some other unstable distributions.

    I have noticed and reported a few bugs, though. :3 This release is looking to be very polished already.

  • Anonymous

    Wow, already? Well, I’ve been on Kubuntu Maverick for a bit now, but the Beta’s already here- about half of the time I get on the Beta, as it tends to work out pretty well. Still safer than some other unstable distributions.

    I have noticed and reported a few bugs, though. :3 This release is looking to be very polished already.

  • Mohan

    Hmmm…maybe I should get my desktop ready to upgrade to the Beta when it comes out tomorrow.

  • http://www.google.com/profiles/suprman2020 Solomon

    Time for me to hop on the Maverick bandwagon…

  • Anonymous

    Me too. I like waiting till the Beta, because every single time I’ve upgraded before then something horrible happens.

  • Anonymous

    Same here! I haven’t really had any show-stoppers if I wait until beta. That’s the whole point, I suppose… :)

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/L7L7TGYKNBABWM3N7ELVBTLV3E Virgil

    I installed from the daily just yesterday. It is able to leave my virtual machine to be used full time. Mostly runs quite well. The upstream 2.6.35 kernel has some issues with my hardware though.

  • http://twitter.com/gdetras Jeffrey Detras

    I can’t wait for the beta one more night. :) upgrading my 10.04 VM to Maverick now.

  • http://twitter.com/bonzi200x sajith kalathingal

    There is a bug which is stopping me while upgrading. I hope it will be fixed today.

  • http://twitter.com/ben8z Ben Topojani

    Just hit Alt-F2 then typed update-manager -d and I’m waiting to upgrade to see what it’s like, will post more soon.

    Oh anyone tried Pinguy Linux based on Ubuntu 10.04 but preinstalled with the lot

  • http://twitter.com/liamjdavison liamjdavison

    I can’t run Maverick on my machine, as there’s some problem with the radeon drivers for my HD5670 graphics card. I can’t make head nor tale of the bug reports on launchpad – right now I can’t even start a “failsafe X” mode. Tempted to try Fedora after years of being an Ubuntu user. :(

  • Anonymous

    I’ll download, hoping that my problems with (I’m starting to think graphics card drivers) are fixed. If they aren’t, I guess I’ll have to scream in terror. Well at least the build from August 29 almost worked with the “nodomoset” option. I managed to boot into a live environment but I couldn’t connect to wi-fi. And it froze 5 minutes later. I still can’t boot directly to the installer as well. I’ve got an nvidia geforce 9300m gs graphics card by the way.

  • godofredo

    Done with the upgrade (although not yet beta). First impressions: The infamous wallpaper is still the default. There is TOO much orange, especially when hovering the mouse over the menu items. I like the Lucid buttons better than the Maverick window buttons. But the software center is really shaping up. Very nice.

  • Anonymous

    ahhh, pinguy os… a omgubuntu visiters dream :)

  • Carl

    I recommend just waiting for them to actually release the thing before uprooting your entire OS.

  • Carl

    I wait for final release. I like the feeling of revolution when all the new stuff comes in at once.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OP7BG4HVH2RDTFAP2VAYJWMY4M justin

    ‘kalathingal’..Mallu’s everywhere!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Upgraded to maverick last night, came back to no xorg and no gdm. Had to use radeon driver to fix it because there’s no fglrx for maverick.

  • Dante

    Damn thing wont even boot for me; “Unknown keyword in configuration file”…still with the dailys, it seems :/

  • http://wakoopa.com/yo2boy yo2boy

    Yeah, I tried Pinguy OS.

  • Jollybobbyroger

    Is there not a torrent available? I have 30 gigs for a testbed partition, so the update command wouldn’t suite me..

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Udo-Sero/100000858027339 Udo Sero

    I will try this out in a virtual machine, but I definitely will not use this for my primary operating system yet. My whole reason for switching to Linux was for stability, so I never use betas.

    • Anonymous

      exactly
      but remember to report the bugs people !

  • http://bruce-connor.myopenid.com/ Bruce Connor

    Is there an iso to fresh install the beta?

  • Anonymous

    Just download the most recent one, and it’ll have all thats required.

  • https://launchpad.net/~fader fader

    Not officially yet, but the QA community is wrapping up ISO testing for it now. You can always use the current daily image; if there are any changes you can update to them with update manager. You’ll be getting pretty continuous updates after installing the beta anyway so being on a daily a bit early doesn’t hurt. :)

    (Standard disclaimers apply: not a released OS, back up your data, this might destroy your data/post embarrassing pictures of you online/eat your dog, etc.)

  • Jollybobbyroger

    Anybody done an install from USB? My optical drive is going huffy on me. Hoping I can use the Startup Disk Creator with the iso.. anyone here with some experience on this?

  • Lukas Rezak

    What? Beta is out?

  • Lukas Rezak

    What is time in your (Ubuntu) country? Mine (Czech Republic) is 10PM, and still waiting for beta :(

  • http://twitter.com/DarkRedman Manuel DEBAUX

    Nice ! I gonna try it in a virtrual machine too ! :D

  • Jjmacey

    I’ll wait a month after the release to see what the Indexer has to say.

 
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