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Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) Makes a First Appearance

Posted by timothy on from the depends-what-you-want-to-produce dept.

srimadman writes "The Alpha 1 Release of Ubuntu 11.04, often known as 'Natty Narwhal,' is intended as a developer snapshot of the next major Ubuntu version, which is due in April." So, if you want to try Unity and Wayland before your neighbors do, this is the time.

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  1. Re:Natty uses Wayland? by SaidinUnleashed · · Score: 5, Informative

    As an option, yes, but not as the default X server. You can expect it to be really buggy right now, though.

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  2. I'm sorry by knightsbore · · Score: 5, Interesting

    But at least in the current setup unity is garbage. They say it was initially designed for netbooks,yet the ui is really laggy on a low end processor and the menu bar takes up around 10% of the left side, on a machine with an already small real estate. Gnome however runs smoothly and takes up almost no real estate. They also chose for some reason to make the settings and properties menus completely disappear. This is linux, not iOS! Oh and this is typed from an eee pc with ubuntu 10.10 on it, with unity, but currently using gnome.