Ubuntu's "Lucid Lynx" Enters Beta

ActionDesignStudios writes "The upcoming release of Ubuntu, titled 'Lucid Lynx,' has just entered the beta cycle. Alongside the usual desktop and server versions, a special version has been released that is designed to run on Amazon's EC2 cloud service. This release of Ubuntu does away with the brown 'Human' Gnome theme we've all become accustomed to, replaced by a new version Canonical says is inspired by light. The new release also includes much better integration with social networking services such as Twitter, identi.ca and Facebook, among others."

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Used it for a few days..

[s0litaire]

... and I like it!
Boot times are FAST on my laptop down to 27s (85s booting on 9.04)

Music Store

[headkase]

I was excited about the Ubuntu One Music Store but then I found out it is gimped in Canada: indie artists only. So once again record labels keep my money out of their pockets! ;)

Re:Using it since Alpha 1

[da cog]

Pure speculation, but it could be that their goal is to order the window buttons in *increasing* order of their impact on the window, so that the easiest to click button merely resizes the window rather than of taking it away or destroying it. This arguably makes more sense then the OSX interface where the easiest button to click of the three is the one that gets rid of your window.

Re:Using it since Alpha 1

[Aphoxema]

Here's a screenshot of my netbook...

http://operationinertia.org/SD/Screenshot8080.png

I switched to Chrome because... well, I don't know. I'm just more comfortable with it in the short time I've used it.

The nice thing about Window Picker Applet is it always keeps the close button to the right edge, so if it's the last applet on the upper panel then I can always expect the close button to be in the upper-right corner.

Maximus removes the window decoration on maximized windows and maximizes all windows windows by default (with some exceptions). Chrome, when using the GTK theme and allowing the DE to manage the decorations nests quite nicely.

I also hid all the subdirectories in the gnome menu and left just the stuff I use in the root.

I grew up using computers, but lately I've been less serious about them. Ubuntu caught me somewhere in between and it just does me right.

Re:Using it since Alpha 1

[geminidomino]

As long as I can easily switch it back to how it currently is, I don't really care. I'm not sure what the reasoning is behind the switch besides pissing off current users.

At a guess, the hype over the past few years has convinced Canonical to try to become the Apple of the Linux world.

It's not working (much like my sound card for the past 4 versions of Ubuntu...)

Re:Using it since Alpha 1

[wvmarle]

Looks nice except for that huge grey bar on top: that's a waste of screen space. I'm now using Easy Peasy (Ubuntu Netbook Remix based) and that is doing something similar except putting the title bar of the window also in the top menu bar, saving those pixes for something useful. Very important on a small screen like the EEE701 has. I'm using it much more now than when I had the stock Linux on it.

The maximising is great on those small screens but on my normal desktop monitor I don't do this: I miss the easy drag-and-drop between windows...

Re:Ubuntu One-liner of the Year: 2010

[Fred_A]

gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout --type string menu:minimize,maximize,close

Gnome. User friendliness, redefined.

Seriously, what's wrong with those people ? Do they fear that having options will confuse users (I heard that one a lot) ? "oh no, there's a button order option, I felt compelled to click on it and now I'm in existential crisis !"
KDE lets you just move the buttons around with the mouse, seems much simpler to me, but what do I know.