Ubuntu 10.10 Beta Released

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Posted by Soulskill on Saturday September 4, 2010 @02:40AM from the still-a-maverick dept.

RandyDownes sends word that Canonical has released the beta version of Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat). The release announcement boasts faster boot times, GNOME 2.31, and a speedier version of Evolution. In addition, "The Ubuntu Software Center has an updated look and feel, including the new 'Featured' and 'What's New' views for showcasing applications, and an improved package description view. You can now easily access your package installation history too." The release notes and download page are both available.

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So where's the "close" button this time? by Compaqt · 2010-09-04 02:55 · Score: 5, Funny

Bottom middle?

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1. Re:So where's the "close" button this time? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-04 03:55 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  What do you care? You have already posted before that you will never try Linux again and plan on sticking with Windows... Which is fine, but there is NO need for you to be asking that question.
2. Re:So where's the "close" button this time? by ferd_farkle · 2010-09-04 04:04 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Last week, somebody handed me a paper to read, but the damned thing is upside-down. I'm still trying to figure it out.
3. Re:So where's the "close" button this time? by TheLink · 2010-09-04 05:04 · Score: 4, Interesting
  
  Defaults are important if you are going to roll something out to thousands of desktops.
  
  It has to be decent or half decent at least, so you don't get so many calls.
  It has to be consistent too, so that you don't so many calls and so that when you get the calls you don't waste extra time trying to figure out where the fuck is the close button is.
  
  That's why many large corporations aren't rolling out Windows 7 over night, and they even upgrade Windows 7 machines to XP when they buy them. Windows 7 changed many things for little gain (Vista doesn't even exist as far as many corps are concerned ;) ). The rest are doing it by attrition (only as new machines come in).
  
  So the fact that "Desktop Linux" can't even get simple stuff like this right isn't going to help acceptance at all. Think long and hard about where you want to put your menus, close buttons, cancel and OK, and then STICK TO IT. Stop fucking around with it.
  
  Unless of course you have a powerful reality distortion field like Steve Jobs.
  
  p.s. Those stupid wobbly windows and zillions of themes aren't worth anything when it comes to productivity. Making it easy for users to change themes just makes it hard for Support to help them over the phone if they pick something really different.
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Re:10.10? by Lawand · 2010-09-04 03:07 · Score: 5, Informative

This is a beta version. The final release is scheduled for October (10.10)

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Re:Nobody cares? by airfoobar · 2010-09-04 03:14 · Score: 5, Funny

It's Saturday evening... maybe linux users have lives? ;)
Re:Nobody cares? by Compholio · 2010-09-04 03:16 · Score: 4, Informative

Either nobody cares, or it must be a slow Slashdot day, this has been posted for 25 minutes and no comments?
It's a beta release and we're all happy with the LTS release right now?
Re:Flickery Display using S-Video under Intel i945 by domatic · 2010-09-04 04:38 · Score: 4, Informative

It's no worse than doing a regedit import which I've had to do to fix presumably Grandma-ready Windows issues.