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Ubuntu 10.10 Release Candidate Launched
tuXx writes "On Thursday, Canonical rolled out the official release candidate of its upcoming Ubuntu OS version 10.10, codenamed Maverick Meerkat. The release announcement has a feature list, and a review of the RC is up at ITWorld. It's available for download at the Ubuntu wiki site. If all goes well, the stable release is planned for Oct. 10th."
LOL I love this comment so much. Yes Ubuntu moved the taskbar buttons to the left...and what else. As for as I can see Mac features that are exclusive to Apple simply do not exist...they certainly did not invent the desktop analogy. Hell the company was drowning before they but there desktop on a *NIX Platform. If Ubuntu have copied anything, they have created a "Brand", they have not focused on innovation, they are not great contributors to Linux; Debian; X; Gnome; OpenOffice. They have developed a font; packaged a sensible collection of Applications that fit on one CD; commercialized their offering with paid support; Cloud Storage, Music Store...and now Commercial Applications, and its about time. Short of wooing some game companies they have been fantastic.
So... don't install the proprietary DEBs... I fail to see how making such software easily available puts you at risk.
Do you trust open-source software? Have you actually looked at the code to make sure that it isn't doing anything sneaky? You know that people can analyze the code and behavior of proprietary software as well, albeit with a little bit more difficulty. That's how all those exploits for Windows came about.