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Ubuntu 10.10 Release Candidate Launched

Posted by Soulskill on from the almost-to-the-finish-line dept.

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."

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  1. Re:pulse, pulse, pulse, *pop* *stutter* pulse, pul by siride · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.