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Next Ubuntu Linux To Be a Maverick

Posted by Soulskill on from the a-lock-for-the-primaries dept.

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."

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  1. Great.... by mangu · · Score: 4, Funny

    Let's hope it comes with the 302 engine

  2. Should have aimed for 10/10/10 by Kelson · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:Should have aimed for 10/10/10 by Kjella · · Score: 5, Funny

      A "Perfect 10" is 36-24-36, if 10-10-10 is your idea of it seek professional help ;)

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    2. Re:Should have aimed for 10/10/10 by thePsychologist · · Score: 5, Informative

      28 is a perfect number. It is the sum of all of its proper divisors. 1 + 2 + 4 + 7 + 14 = 28.

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    3. Re:Should have aimed for 10/10/10 by 0100010001010011 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Only if she's 5'3".

  3. Maverick Meerkat? Meh... by Em+Emalb · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm waiting for Naughty Nautilus myself.

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  4. Re:Maverick Meerkat? Meh... by gzipped_tar · · Score: 4, Funny

    Forget those underwater invertebrates. Naughty Nymph FTW.

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  5. Awww... by Kirin+Fenrir · · Score: 4, Funny

    They didn't accept my name, "Menstruating Mongoose". :(

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  6. sorry, but Ubuntu failed hard this release by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

    1. Re:sorry, but Ubuntu failed hard this release by tom17 · · Score: 4, Informative

      I'm in a similar boat. I did the upgrade over the weekend from 9.10. When I went from 9.04 to 9.10 I was mostly pleased, except a few irritating bugs and the fast user switch applet was removed - this previously made wife-friendly usage in the living room a breeze. I was all excited to get to 10.04 as it was returning. This would be Ubuntu's last chance to keep me.

      Yes it returned (in a less intuitive place, the menu with your name is now all 'communication' based. The fast switching is located under the *power* icon... huh?)
      I have already had a system freeze while switching user.

      Sun Java was booted and now isn't even in the repositories. "OpenJDK is good enough for most people". I will try it for a while but I hope it is up to scratch for Java EE 6 development (doubt that). Now I have to jump through the proverbial hoops.

      The whole Indicator applet/Indicator applet session/Notification Area/Volume control/Battery meter/Network icon mess is a joke. - The combinations of icons that you are allowed ends up with far less efficient usage of space in some circumstances. The reason they made the changes? To increase efficiency of space used.

      I know some of these are minor irritations in reality, but it's mucking about with stuff like this, causing frustration with the users, that pisses me off. I know, I will get used to it.. *sigh*.

      So it's time for a switch. Is Fedora Core wife-friendly? She is begging for Win7 so I may just partition it with FC/Win7 & Hackintosh - Maybe this is the OS that will lure me, cos linux (Well, Ubuntu) only seems to be going backwards.

      Tom...

  7. Re:Ubuntu 6 month cycle by FictionPimp · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I go from LTS to LTS. But those incrmental upgrades are great. It gives the bleeding edge people something to do, and it let's me keep tabs on what will show up in the next LTS.

  8. Release early, release often. by khasim · · Score: 5, Informative

    The 6 month iterations are plain stupidity, IMO.

    But it gets current code out there and in use.

    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.

    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.

    1. Re:Release early, release often. by IANAAC · · Score: 4, Insightful

      That's where the LTS releases come in. If you don't want to upgrade, you don't have to. For years.

      The problem with this is that many good applications won't support the release for the same amount of time.

      Boxee is an excellent example, at least for the last Ubuntu LTS release. They dropped support for it as soon as the next Ubuntu release came out - not an LTS release.

  9. Re:Ubuntu 6 month cycle by Minwee · · Score: 5, Funny

    The 6 month iterations are plain stupidity, IMO. Hardly anyone wants to "upgrade" that often

    If you don't want to upgrade every six months then don't do it.

    Just let me know if you have any other really tough problems that you need my help with.

  10. Maverick Meerkat?!? by Locke2005 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought for sure they were going to name it "Masturbating Monkey"!

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    1. Re:Maverick Meerkat?!? by migla · · Score: 4, Funny

      I thought for sure they were going to name it "Masturbating Monkey"!

      But that was all ready taken by OpenBSD (or given to them by Torvalds, to be more precise):

      http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-211239.html

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  11. The Slashdot Trolls all agree by Beelzebud · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  12. Re:Sounds good! by Abcd1234 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I know, I know, "'Ubuntu' is an African word meaning 'I'm too stupid for Slackware'"

    Funny, I thought it was African for "I used Slackware years ago, but now I have better things to do with my time"...