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Next Ubuntu Linux To Be a Maverick
VincenzoRomano writes "While the latest version of Ubuntu is still smoking hot, the Ubuntu development community is already working on the next step. Both the wiki and the bug tracking system at Launchpad have already been set up for Maverick Meerkat, which will be version number 10.10. This confirms the usual naming and numbering schema and the fact that the final release should be due in October. This next version, which obviously won't be Long Term Support (LTS), should sport a lighter and faster environment with GNOME 3.0, a.k.a. GNOME Shell, among the main advances. Everything has been explained by Mr. Shuttleworth in his own blog since the beginning of April. The first alpha release is not due earlier than the end of June, so maybe it'd be better to take advantage of the Lucid Lynx while the technical overview of the Meerkat starts getting more details."
Let's hope it comes with the 302 engine
I see that they're aiming for October 28. You'd think someone would have tried to aim the "Perfect 10" for a 10/10/10 release date.
I'm waiting for Naughty Nautilus myself.
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Forget those underwater invertebrates. Naughty Nymph FTW.
Colorless green Cthulhu waits dreaming furiously.
I know, I know, "'Ubuntu' is an African word meaning 'I'm too stupid for Slackware'" ... I don't use it myself (I use another distribution, not going to plug it here), but I've installed it for a number of friends and family members, and just installed Lynx for my brother, because:
1) Ease of install/configuration
2) Pretty easy transition from Windows
3) Lots of software in the repos
And some other reasons. LL is pretty sweet, so I think Shuttleworth & Co. are on the right track in many, if not all, ways.
So I think the announcement is pretty exciting. Gnome 3 looks very promising ... so next June' Maverick Meerkat could be pretty interesting.
The 6 month iterations are plain stupidity, IMO. Hardly anyone wants to "upgrade" that often, and when it's out, we all realize that it's the same old crap in a different color.. No real usability improvements.
They didn't accept my name, "Menstruating Mongoose". :(
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I've used Ubuntu as my primary desktop OS since 8.10, and I can say without reservation that 10.04 is the worst of the bunch. Why? They broke everything! And I'm not just talking about button placement. I fixed that in the first 10 minutes. The reason why I'm abandoning Ubuntu are simple: they dropped the quality ball on this release.
First I noticed that VirtualBox doesn't let you use bridged network unless you manually install some kernel drivers. Googling found that people had this problem for at least 3 months, and they still didn't fix it in the release. Second, upgrading uninstalled my Java plugin for Firefox, so I had to manually add the symlink. Third (and by far the worst), my 6GB machine became non-responsive in the first 24 hours of uptime -- on the same machine that typically had months of uptime on 8.10 through 9.10 (I only rebooted for security patches that required a reboot).
In conclusion: if they don't fix these problems in the next two weeks, I'll abandon Ubuntu for another distribution, and I'll never consider using Ubuntu again.
Will it be appearing on http://www.comparethemeerkat.com/ ?
But it gets current code out there and in use.
That's where the LTS releases come in. If you don't want to upgrade, you don't have to. For years.
In the meantime, the other people are hammering on the short-release cycle code.
I was really hoping for Majestik Moose. Seemed like the obvious choice to me.
I thought for sure they were going to name it "Masturbating Monkey"!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
I went against my earlier decision to wait a few weeks after the official release, and upgraded the night 10.04 came out. For the first time since I'm using Ubuntu from 7.04, nothing broke! I mean - network, virtual box, mail everything still worked. My only problem was getting use to the placement of the control box on the left instead of on the right. In terms of speed, I haven't seen any visible improvement in startup, but shutdown occurs in way less time than 9.10. This is the best Ubuntu yet!
Try sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
In defiance of spelling nazis everywhere, I propose the next release be named "kneeling gnu".
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Ever since ubuntu became usable without command line hacking (somewhere in 2007 by my account), they started fucking up other parts. They started adding in new flashy shit that no-one really needs, and forgetting about actually getting a STABLE distro out there. In 9.10 everything pretty much works on my desktop (wish i could say the same for my laptops, which fuck up on every release), except for the piece of misconfigured shit that is pulseaudio. If i try to play certain DVDs in vlc, all sound will play, except for the fricking voice tracks.. it takes endless fucking about to get this to work. And every single release the last few years has had these type of issues on nearly all of my systems. nearly everything works, but they never forget to royally screw at least one thing up, preventing themselves from becoming a true user friendly distro.
10.04 will NOT make it onto my main systems for day to day use, if i ever find the need to upgrade from my current ubuntu settups, then fedora is first on my list.
People, what a bunch of bastards
11.04 will be called Nocturnal Neckbeard.
The Slashdot Trolls all agree; Ubuntu is the worst OS ever made, and only caters to retards!
Which means it actually may be getting close to the year of the Linux Desktop. After all, it's actually becoming usable by "morons", a.k.a. people that have a life.
Most notably in my case, was the use of an external monitor at a different resolution than my netbook.
That was horribly broken in 9.04.
As for uptime, I've only had mine running a couple days on and old Eee 701 (albeit with 2G memory), but it's been solid, so far.
You start with AA AA, as in Adventurous Amazing Awesome Apes.
It's important to say to the impatient among us that the first alpha release is not due earlier than the end of June,
Actually, the release schedule page has the first alpha release on June 3. The second alpha is end of June (actually July 1st.)
GNOME Shell doesn't just require compositing (which almost all computers support - compositing works fine with the generic VESA drivers), it requires OpenGL which (effectively) means it requires accelerated 3D. Computers which don't have accelerated 3D will have to stick with metacity and the panel, I think, which will still be in GNOME 3.
Obese Owl?
GNOME Shell doesn't just require compositing (which almost all computers support - compositing works fine with the generic VESA drivers), it requires OpenGL which (effectively) means it requires accelerated 3D. Computers which don't have accelerated 3D will have to stick with metacity and the panel, I think, which will still be in GNOME 3.
And it's written mostly in javascript. If that isn't bad enough, the javascript engine used is Firefox's. (Last I heard.)
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What are they going to do after Zany Zebra?
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