Ubuntu 10.10 Beta Released

By , Published September 2, 2010

A lot has changed in Ubuntu 10.10 since last months Alpha 3 release, and when I say 'a lot' i really mean a lot.

Download links can be found at the bottom of this post, but before you scroll join us as we take a breezy visual tour of everything new and shiny in Ubuntu 10.10 Beta.

The Look

The theme

The default theme in Ubuntu has been refined for Maverick, with softer gradients, new progress animations, luscious buttons and more. It's easily the sleekest coat of any Ubuntu so far.

Icons

The default Humanity icon set has been spruced up for 10.10 with new directional and toolbar buttons for Nautilus, a new ‘home’ icon and icons for various hardware devices such as iPod touch, Motorola Droid & even the humble hard-drive.

Wallpapers

17 new – and community sourced – wallpapers await you. The quality of inclusions this time are without rival – from beautiful nature papers to the abstract and architectural, you're bound to find something that's you. Selection_007

Sound Menu

Ubuntu's new Sound Menu has taken one step back and two step forwards for the Beta; it's shed some of the initially implemented functionality (such as playlist support), revamped the buttons and reduced the font size for playing track info, etc.

The result is a utterly divine; were the Ubuntu desktop made of icing then the sound menu would most certainly be the cherry on top.

sound menu[4]

The Ubuntu Software Centre

What isn't there to say about the Ubuntu Software Centre in 10.10€¦

It has a newly inducted  'Paid Apps' section, a ‘Where is it?’ feature for locating applications after install, he ability to select add-ons to be installed alongside popular applications as you install them and, most notably, a sublime new look.

Installation

Here's where the win kicks in – Ubuntu 10.10 has a greatly improved installer that is such a joy to use you will wonder how we ever managed without it!

It not only looks nicer but also contains less steps, gets on with the installation duties as you fill your information in and even offers to install multimedia playback support.

Ubuntu Netbook Edition

Users of Ubuntu Netbook Edition upgrading to beta will notice a tonne of enhancements to the new Unity interface.

A brand new 'Dash' browser for files and applications, lots of new icons, an improved theme, better overall responsiveness, the AppMenu enabled by default and – AND – the addition of netbook friendly interfaces for both Evolution & Banshee.

Download Ubuntu 10.10 Beta

As this is a testing release of Ubuntu is is not recommended for casual users or use on devices where stability is sacred.

Release notes can be found @ http://www.ubuntu.com/content/maverick-meerkat-beta

Downloads can be found @ http://releases.ubuntu.com/maverick/ or for quick access: -

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  • http://orsobasso.blogspot.com/ Orsobasso

    Time to try Unity.

  • Anonymous

    *starts downloading* please let it have no problems in my computer!by the way, thanks for the heads up! :)

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      No problem!

  • http://twitter.com/ThomasBerends Thomas Berends

    Links aren’t working?

  • http://sites.google.com/site/foxsoftcorp DigitalCircuit

    Found a typo:
    It has a newly inducted ‘Paid Apps’ section, a ‘Where is it?’ feature for locating applications after install, he ability to…
    Should be: the ability to :)

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  • http://twitter.com/orawas orawas

    What’s included in the paid app section?

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Nothing so far.

  • http://nironan12.deviantart.com/ Nate

    I can’t wait for the stable release! I’m going to go into my virtual machine and update it.

  • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

    The download links are, the ‘official announcement’ is always slower.

  • http://gnome-look.org/usermanager/search.php?username=OrphanShadow OrphanShadow

    Nice. Got this evening spare to give it a good test too.

  • http://www.twitter.com/wilsonliam Wilsonliam

    Whoah, what? Why are they all DVD images? And where’s the Netbook Edition?!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_M4LCWWHIXXDKJQGGWPDXZK7M3Q Alex

    so where are windicators?

    • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/R25APX2NWD4262MDEYS2BWWEZU Mikolaj

      Good question… yet another big change promissed and apparently forgotten, he does not even mention them talking about 11.04…

      • Anonymous

        It will be included in 11.04. I have a feeling it will make things really BEAUTIFUL.

    • http://twitter.com/Retj Retj

      No, really what about them?, i used to like the idea, something so different and noew from other OSs, but… what did just happend?, how can a Design Main Chief could “forget” something like this? and i haven’t read anything about soundscheme as well, still listening the jungle-like login sound (and still no logout sound since Intrepid).

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XF35ZWCVPAHTAMHPDXWBR6USPU BH

        I’m convinced he forgot about them because I believe he simply decided he wanted the buttons on the left, and when asked for a reason he needed to make one up. That’s why it took a little while for him to say the windicators were the reason the window control buttons were moved to the left. If it was truly the reason, he would have said that when first asked.

        • Anonymous

          False.

        • Anonymous

          False.

  • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

    Whoops. Cos I was even earlier announcing this than I thought. >_< That page will have them, just in the next hour or so.

  • Connel

    Shhhhh, I’m hoping Mark Shuttelworth has forgotten about ‘em

    :P

    • Anonymous

      I just pinged Mark. Bleeh!!

  • http://cldx.blogspot.com/ Joern Konopka

    Now looking at this nice rundown of the new stuff it almost makes one forget how ugly it was during the last couple of months…

    On a sidenote, i just cant get over how much smoother the comments section now looks, it’s really a beauty…

  • http://twitter.com/carlrice Carl Rice

    Anyone know if Banshee is supported in the sound menu? I can’t believe Rhythmbox is still the standard.

  • http://twitter.com/leejarratt Lee Jarratt

    Top-notch! It just keeps getting better and better :)

  • http://twitter.com/vishnumrao Vishnu Rao

    How come the bit torrent download files don’t work? I get a tracker error! Anyone else get that error?

  • Jfjfj

    60 kb/s… not worth it

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/R25APX2NWD4262MDEYS2BWWEZU Mikolaj

    1 seed 7 peers for netbok edition? Is everyone using http download? If yes then shame!

  • Lukas Rezak

    Hello, whats the main diferent between dvd or cd image? Thx

    • Anonymous

      If I remember correctly, the DVD image contains a bunch of extra languages to install if you don’t speak English. If you can understand some English it may be easier just to download the CD and then install your language pack once the install is done.

      http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/alternative-download#dvd

  • Anonymous

    comments on the site? disqus?

  • http://twitter.com/isthatagherkin isthatagherkin

    I wish they would make the menu bar the same color as the window instead of the title bar, it makes it look like the title bar is and inch tall.

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  • daas88

    I read in the ubuntu website that the only difference is that the dvd image has support for more languages out of the box, so you don’t have to download the translations. It’s good for installing ubuntu in places where the internet is too expensive or unavailable.

  • daas88

    And I have a feeling it will make things really CLUTTERED.

  • https://launchpad.net/~nhaines Nathan Haines

    On the other hand, you can click on either the title bar or the empty part of the menu bar to drag and reposition a window now.

  • http://twitter.com/chaeMil Michal Mlejnek

    hi i dont know why but i!m not able to boot to unity…

  • Anonymous

    Is anyone as annoyed as me by the fact that you can’t alter the volume anymore by mouse scrolling over the indicator-sound icon? Seriously, whats the deal with that?! IMHO this was a pretty vital function and according to a bugreport (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-sound/+bug/608174), they are not planning to put it back in (for a pretty stupid reason).

    • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/7GXJ4CL5A6A5YPPUO47UQXGP5Y Johan

      I read some duplicate bug report of that and that thread said fix was commited to fix this. Can’t find it right now, but we’ll see. It’s f’in annoying though.

  • antonmelnikov

    Well, I feel kinda angry and disappointed.
    * Could not make bootable USB with new ISO and Lucid’s USB maker, it simply doesn’t boot. Unetbootin doesn’t help too.
    * Bootspalsh is REALLY weird (http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/694/48410972.png)
    * No cool Ubuntu font. Shouldn’t we test it in Beta?
    * No new calendar applet.
    * No new weather applet.
    * Sound menu looks bad with light themes (IMHO)
    * Shitty “Computer janitor” is back, still ugly and useless.
    * Default wallpaper is damn horrible, but you already know about it :)
    * Unity desktop doesn’t work under VirtualBox. No error, just an empty wallpaper.
    * No global menu, at least I can’t find its package. And it certainly wasn’t installed with Unity.
    —-
    I know, it’s only a beta. Bootsplash and wallpaper will be OK in final release (I HOPE so), but what about those applets? And windicators? And global menu in Unity? Why Ubuntu font is still in closed testing? Where are my shiny new toys, dammit?!

    Sorry for being rude, but THAT was a total disappointment.

    • http://twitter.com/afroman10496 Joe Lawrence

      hence the word, ‘beta’.

      and sorry if that was a jerkish thing to say, i have the same problems, but still.

      BETA, not an RC, a BETA. It’s basically as stable as a daily build of september 4th.

    • http://twitter.com/Retj Retj

      I’ve seen the same bootsplash for 10.04 BETA don’t worry too much about it. About Windicators… seems like everyone (Even shuttleworth) forgot about them.

    • daas88

      That’s the text theme for plymouth, it’s installed on computers that have problems with other themes… but I guess it’s only there because you are using ubuntu from a virtual machine.

  • haydoni

    seems really early for beta of a non-LTS release! but that’s a good thing :)

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/DATA6WDNBSCFJL6JSP5OP3AADQ asedsa

    Joey, why are hyperlinks blue instead of purple? Purple would look better

  • Brandon

    I’m guessing you have an ATI card, get a white screen with strange artifacts when you log in. There are several bug reports that all have to do with ATI cards, I hope the bug gets fixed before the release of unity. So anyone with an ATI card currently can’t use unity. Including me :( Although it could be some other problem since there are a lot of bugs to iron out yet.

  • http://twitter.com/afroman10496 Joe Lawrence

    I cant wait to boot up to a _beautiful_ wallpaper! :D

  • Ricardo
  • Tommy

    Is it a bug that the heading’s background does not match the titlebar color in the “Preparing to install” window?
    I hope it’s not a feature.

  • http://twitter.com/shishimaru1000 Salvatore Cresce

    I like Maverick!

  • Anonymous

    Looking forward then :-)

  • http://twitter.com/explodingwalrus Carl Draper

    Shaping up nicely, looking forward to the release, just as long as they change that default wallpaper!

    • http://twitter.com/Retj Retj

      Ubuntu is kinda famous for bad wallpaper taste LOL. The community usually says NOOO!!! and they do it anyway.

  • http://twitter.com/om26er omer akram

    Banshee is supposed to be supported by the sound Menu. I didnt see it working though

  • http://twitter.com/explodingwalrus Carl Draper

    Blown away hopefully!

  • LIB53

    I think i read somewhere that the media player needs to be using MPRIS and banshee does that in it’s latest release 1.7.5. I might be totally wrong, but i’m pretty sure i read that somewhere…

  • Anonymous

    Wonder if they will add a light-themes “legacy” package for those who don’t like the new ones?

  • Bd

    buhuhu… Why do they always have to foozle the greatest theme in the last minute?

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

    That’s awesome ! I gonna test ! :D

  • Claudio

    I just installed the beta of Maverick and I am really impressed with the installation time is really fast. I also noticed that now the packages are installed with the Software Center and not with gdebi. I do not mind at all Maverick, but I have a serious problem with the kernel when I try to use the Windows wireless driver with ndiswrapper. I hope they resolve this issue quickly, because I can not live without that driver. The default driver for my alpha awus036h is really bad.

  • Claudio

    sorry, Alfa….not alpha

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  • http://eduardodx.com.br Eduardo Dx

    Can’t wait to try this!

  • Days_of_Ruin

    Why do the “Where are you?” buttons look different from the rest?

  • Mohan

    Upgrading my system right now!

  • http://www.flickr.com/stuffbox DuduMaroja

    still waiting for unity becaming stable!

  • Tim Tierney

    I saw the boot loader options were added to the advanced partition editor. What if I don’t want to install the boot loader. I’m running multiple Linux distros and don’t what grub over written.

  • Vomit-Critique

    Hello! Any news on the default wallpaper? Is it still vomit?

  • Pierre

    Hi,

    It’s very good and I will give it a try ASAP.

    But I have a comment to make about one of the screenshot I already saw here, the one called “Preparing to install Ubuntu”.

    I can read the following:

    —–
    Ubuntu supports MP3 playback, Flash content, wifi hardware, and similar functionality through third party software, not all of which is open source.
    (…)
    The following notice applies to the Fluendo MP3 plugin: “MPEG Layer-3 audio decoding technology licensed from Fraunhofer IIS and Thomson”
    —–

    Honestly, I do not understand ANYTHING of that!

    In the first sentence, we are talking about:
    - an audio format used in my music player,
    - a technology to look at Youtube videos and play games online,
    - some obscure hardware.

    And then it says “and similar functionality”… what’s so “similar” about these three things? It really doesn’t make much sense to me (and probably even less to a newcomer).

    The other sentence is about MP3 licensing… but why displaying MP3 licensing, and why not the Flash thing or the wifi thing or the “similar functionality” thing? I know, it’s because there would be too much information, but then why arbitrary choose MP3? I am not sure this sentence brings a lot of useful information to the user.

    What do you think?

  • http://twitter.com/kent_stor Kent Storbakken

    It’s got to do with what’s similar between these 3 things, and that is that they are not open source. To use MP3′s, some wifi cards and flash you require a 3rd party download. You’re just reading it wrong, it’s not focusing on if they’re the same medium, but a similarity between them that is not being open source. I think they showed MP3 in depth more because it was a straight forward example of a licensing problem.

    I do agree that it should be written differently though. A poor way indeed of writing it.

  • http://twitter.com/kent_stor Kent Storbakken

    You have the wrong link to the release notes. It’s at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/maverick/beta which contains the release notes and download links.

  • http://wakoopa.com/yo2boy yo2boy

    I have an nVidia and I’m getting the white screen with strange artifacts.

  • Anonymous

    They do have to find a balance between what’s easy to read and what’s most legal to say. I suspect the notice of the license for mp3 is entirely impossible to leave out without being sued.

    The rest is pretty simple to me, and should be revised, but I don’t think it would be smart to state it in too unprofessional a way. It should be easy for anyone to understand, but not give too casual an impression.

  • Brandon

    Well I guess we’re not alone then, but do you have the nVidia proprietary drivers installed because their needed to run unity, that’s why you can’t run unity on ATI because the drivers lack shader support(correct me if I’m wrong). I think the white screen problem is across ATI, intel and nVidia.

    • http://wakoopa.com/yo2boy yo2boy

      Yeah, it’s an nVidia proprietary driver. Thing is…

      I open unity. After the white screen, it shows up nice and smooth. Then when I hover my mouse over it, it’s gone. Screen flickers like crazy.

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

    Just tried to upgrade to Maverick from Lucid. Talk about an epic fail. Clean installs FTW!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=868135552 Tony Leon

    update-manager -d is the fastest way to go :)

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/YCSKYW5XAZBXWHZ2I5RPCNXYBU Isaac

    Love love love it! Lynx was not my favorite, but it looks like the Meerkat will be!! :D

  • Frog98146

    You beat me too it. I proof read stuff for folks and saw that and now the cat is out of the bag.

  • Zu

    Y E S

  • godofredo

    Finally, the beta now works with my netbook. I just got my first feel for the Unity interface. I will miss the current netbook version though.

  • Dr Paulaner

    if they do fix that ” invisible cursor and mousepointer” problem..it is nice

    • Priyank_patel566

      hey i have the same problem of mousepointer invisible

  • HappyGuest

    Good design, for a Gnome distro, but I can’t get used to that black-orange color scheme. They should provide the same design in more different colors, not just Ambiance and Radiance, IMHO.
    Mmh, the “add the non-free codecs please” check-box could possibly kill Mint… uh, not really, and Mint isn’t just about codecs ready out of the box anyway, but things like that really helps newcomers.

    BTW nice new site theme!

  • Anonymous

    I just realized why the window buttons bother me now. It’s not the flatness, it’s the fact that it’s a bit more flat, but they’ve changed the shapes in the buttons themselves. While before it was all diagonals and blended nicely, now the flat colors only accentuate the huge clash of diagonal and horizontal. This will, of course, also cause the close button to look more distinguished.

    I dunno’, I really would like to see this exact theme with the old window buttons. I hope it gets made, as I don’t assume it would be very difficult to modify. But eh, it’s still really nice, and good enough. I must admit that compared to this I really dislike the brown hues in the Lucid theme.

  • Larry W Bradley

    Hilarious that someone who proofreads stuff for folks should use “too” (you beat me too it) instead of “to.”

  • Victor

    nice

  • Anonymous

    Almost Finish!!

  • Seahorse Pip

    Joey could you update the firefox skin post for me?
    I allready released the firefox skin on my deviantart(seahorsepip.deviantart.com)
    and It is not only mac anymore ;)

  • Anonymous

    if he has forgotten, i’d like the buttons back on the right by default please…

  • Colin Pyper

    I did a distribution upgrade in virtual box and after the restart my screen resolution changed to 800 x 600 and that is the max available in the monitors menu. Is there a way to get it to 1440 x 900 anyone?

    Please!

  • Koushik

    Authenticating the upgrade failed. There may be a problem with the network or with the server.

  • Glennz NL

    Is it still impossible to install on the largest free space with the new installer?

  • Frog98146

    Wow First Ubuntu to work out of the box. Even found my Net Gear WG111x3 USB Wireless. Using a Frys computer 1.60 MHz, 80g HD, 1g Ram. Only booted in CD mode. Will try install after I test some more. Wow scary went to bathroom come back and a BLACK screen, bumped my mouse and the page came back. Turned out screen saver set to black screen by default. I think they should change that so it don’t give folks like me a heart attack. OK so one more thing to test I have a webcam where would I find it to test it.

    • Anonymous

      You would have to install cheese, it’s a webcam app.

  • Seahorse Pip

    Worked at my pc even when the power was gone off by mistake and I had to do in safe mode with a lot of hassle everything manually I still got it working and love the nouveau 3D!

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

      You, sir, have more patience than I do.

      Offtopic: Brightness keys finally work out of the box on Toshibas!!

      • http://twitter.com/TheSofox Sofox

        It’s stuff like this I really love.

        I remember the happiness I felt a while back when I upgraded my Toshiba laptop to the next version of Fedora and suddenly finding the volume dial suddenly worked.

  • http://froging.myopenid.com/ frog98146

    It is changed or I should say on the Live CD tryme it is not vomit. It’s the 10.04 purple page.

  • http://froging.myopenid.com/ frog98146

    You know that is the best proof readers the ones that make mistakes cause we catch others when we don’t our own. Funny how that works.

  • http://froging.myopenid.com/ frog98146

    Also you should of ended your sentence with an ! to drive your point home you think I’m a dumb asset. Have a nice day!

  • Anonymous

    on my lappy…it was too buggy….way too buggy….perhaps some conflict with the hardware…now i m using suse 11.3 with kde 4.5..gets the job done…but still after endless updating and download codecs…

    come on…just to play a tiny mp3 one has to check the repository and on and on..why dont just provide codecs with the cd???

  • guest

    ;)

  • guest

    SHould have. Just sayin’ [!]

  • F

    I keep thinking that the prev/play/next buttons look really bad in bas relief… no consistency with the rest of the theme whatsoever.

  • Sir Rodness

    Don’t even care…the Rhythmbox rescan for external drives issue is gone. YES!

    My personal desktop looks pretty. I love Ubuntu. For those that complain about stuff you can change like the default wallpaper, web browser, media players, skins, icons, fonts. etc for the love of my remaining sanity please stop. If you don’t like it go back to Windoze and complain about that. A least that would make me giggle a bit. :)

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/R25APX2NWD4262MDEYS2BWWEZU Mikolaj

    I tried to test the netbook edition, and so far it has been craptastic, does not run in wubi, tried usb creator on the iso and the usb does not boot…

  • http://twitter.com/hoggsy Simon Hogg

    can you set the unity sidebar to autohide ? I have a 8″ netbook and last time i tried unity the sidebar to up to much screen space when trying to browse

  • Wpieterson

    Same experience here, upgraded from Lucid but encountered nothing but failure. Shall try a clean install tomorrow.

  • Anonymous

    The update manager

    Ooops; sorry, thought we were talking about the mac

  • Anonymous

    But make sure you back-up everything

  • LR

    Me too!

    This is just sh*t! I know it’s beta but I would expect basic stuff to work like this. What’s the point in releasing a netbook edition when it won’t boot from a USB drive. I have tried Unetbootin and the pendrivelinux utility to create the USB boot but no luck.

    It’s this kind of stuff that stops people from moving from MS Windows to Linux. So disappointing.

  • Anonymous

    I can’t seem to get Unity to work on my netbook… could it because of the Nvidia Ion Chip??

  • http://jlbs.me.uk/ Josh Smith

    I’m using the Netbook Remix now and, urrgghh, it’s horrible. Unity has crashed thrice on me already, and seems to enjoy hanging gratuitously as well.

    The “dash” file thingy is useless for actually managing files. I’ve found myself having to launch nautilus with a terminal (there’s no launcher for it anywhere) to even do simple things like move a downloaded MP3 into my Music folder.

    I can’t modify the panel at all. Even the clock applet is now completely uncustomisable; I miss my full-length date and weather. :(

    It seems that every release Ubuntu (especially UNR) becomes more and more like what Mark Shuttleworth thinks I should want, and less like what I actually do. And if I want to customise things to better suit me, I can’t.

    Straight back to fully-featured GNOME in Lucid, I think.

    • M J Van Wolferen

      I’m having the same experience, combined with the fact that everything seems completely slow, whilst I’ve never had any problems with the original Gnome install I had. AFter using MeeGo for a while and now Unity, I’m starting to think that there’s nothing wrong with GNOME and GnomeDO on a Netbook.

      Installing has been a pain with a lot of Ubiquity errors.

  • lifeform23

    I think the old NBR GUI was more intuitive. Anyone able to find the appearance settings?

  • godofredo

    Now that I have tried unity, I still like the simplicity of the lucid netbook edition. Unity is too way complicated. Where is the Preferences menu?

  • godofredo

    Yes, that is right. I like the windows button from Lucid than Maverick. I just hope they include in the themes the lucid windows button so we can change it by then. I don’t see it right now in the themes changer.

  • Pierre

    It makes a bit more sense now,thanks both of you!

    Yes, I guess writing something that both suits the newbie and the lawyer is something impossible to do… But maybe they should do like everybody else then: put the legal 127-pages-long text in a window nobody never reads, and focus on one or two super easy sentences in the main window to explain the MP3/Flash/Wifi issue… and maybe a little explanation on Open Source as well? I don’t know… I feel the more you act as if the user was a moron, the “moroner” the user tends to be, so…

  • Slymi2005

    I got an error in Transmission when I tried downloading the torrent, it said something about unauthorized tracker.

  • Colin Pyper

    If anybody actually reads the known issues on the download page they may find a simple solution to the USB install.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/KME6NDF3KTWK6NNPG5SF36PLBI Ambleston

    Do you know what narks me with Maverick? I’ve just sold my house and bought a plot so I can build on. So for the next 12 – 18 months I’ll be a builder and living in a caravan with no internet, and why does this nark me? ‘Cos Maverick will be released after I move and I will be unable to try out its goodies :( I wonder if I can give the buyer their money back….

  • 6205

    What about new Ubuntu font. Is is there ?

  • Nikhil Sinha

    Bug has been filed in Launchpad.net regarding Ubuntu 10.10 Wallpaper.
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-wallpapers/+bug/625193

    If you agree that wallpaper should be changed then
    Please mark – “Yes, it affects me” under “Does this bug affect you?”

  • http://reelbadcinema.com Erik Dan

    Will have to install this later as I prep a re-transition of my Notebook back to Linux, but it will be a dual boot at first because of IE8 (web design) and Netflix. Though the former is getting there in Wine, but IE9 might change that (i.e. break it).

    Course even with those two eliminated, still have the biggest annoyance to take care of… Adobe Photoshop CS5, though I could get by with CS4, and some have made some small inroads into getting CS5 up and running.

    Maybe with 10.10 and the introduction of pay applications, Adobe might reconsider a Linux port… not really.

    You know one feature I like in Windows 7 that should find its way into a new Ubuntu release should be Pinning of Windows. Makes it so easy to work with documents and such.

    It is after all an evolution of tiling into the cascading framework.

    The method of doing it through Compiz is wonky at best, and not as functional as it is on 7, and it is one feature that is quite simple but was never thought of or implemented until recently.

    Either you cascade or tile, but to do both… absurdity.

    To rap up this overly long comment, I must make the observation that I should become more involved with Linux communities.

  • Anonymous

    The design of the website is good, looks really clean and crisp.

  • lifeform23

    any word on the new font?

  • Anonymous

    I had heard of plans to have the installer take a snap of you via the webcam and use it for your login image. It didn’t make it to fruition?

    • Simon

      Who cares ’bout knicknacks like that?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VMX42Q2A647WCWDTNSUJEMM7XE MiZoSpaDe

    Netbook editions , FAIL

    really 10.04 is way way better

    the new side bar is sux , it eats the monitor , and guess what netbook come with a small lcd , so it’s sux on browsing the internet

    a lot of problems . i installed a programs and i can’t reach or search for it , you can’t find mouse , screen saver alot of things

    waiting for the final release , i hope ubuntu really thinking about this side bar cause it’s so lame

    1st side bar is sux , eat alot of the lcd and guess what we need to find more places not eat it :S

    2nd it’s more heavy than 10.04 in booting and in using

    3rd when i choose to open apps it takes alot , my netbook with 2G ram

    4th sometimes it hangs

    5th can’t feel that you can do more than one thing in the same time

    6th ryhtembox didn’t work

    then FAIL

    10.04 FTW

  • Paulkoussoulos

    Saturday 4th september 2010
    just upgraded from 10.04 to 10.10
    now I can’t log on. Won’t except my password. Knows what my password is because it gives me a terminal. But I can’t get into my computer. Any one help?

  • http://twitter.com/stee1rat SteelRat

    NBR 10.10 is really awful! It’s too slow, the unity is just taking the screen’s space, but it useless. And why is there that keyboard icon near the locale indicator? It’s looks awful!

    I’m very disappointed that i did upgrade! I did it on the alpha 3, and the impressions was the same :(

  • http://twitter.com/squidlaser laosquid

    Ubuntu 10.10 looks great. One thing I don’t like is the rounded appearance of the top Window border. Not as professional looking as OS X. The damn dark themes are have a nightmarish feel. Radiance should be the default theme.

  • Mercuri Matteo

    Can’t see the pointer. It is there but is invisible!!! Toshiba Satellite A30

  • Penny

    Xubuntu is better.

  • Penny

    Xubuntu is better.

  • http://twitter.com/Retj Retj

    EVERYONE FORGOT ABOUT WINDICATORSSSSS???

  • dovydas

    I have invisible mouse pointer too.
    However I have managed to launch rekonq browser and to google some answers. I have even managed to write this comment using invisible mouse. Does that mean I am a geek?

  • ivan

    As far as 2 weeks ago, netbook interface still sucks. Default gnome works much nicer on my gf 10 inch netbook

 
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