Ubuntu 10.10 Beta

[The Mad Rapper]

Apologies if you're already aware of this, but the 10.10 Beta (Maverick Meerkat) is available for download now from:

http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/maverick/beta#Download Beta

I tried it last night; the new installer is a huge step forwards, with a great look and feel, and even more simplicity. There are definite speed improvements in the Gnome WM as well, very snappy.

All in all, a massive improvement over the slow and buggy 10.04 release, and I commend it to the forum.

 

[The Mad Rapper]

Wil try it out!

Just point out to any of our new linux users, remember it's beta and don't rely on it, so backup your data or install it in virtualbox!

Agreed. Of course it's always wise to take precautions.

I have to say though, I've popped it on a spare 1TB drive and it is working superbly. Additionally, on the pages for the Beta, there are a list of known issues which will hopefully be resolved before final release. It obviously isn't exhaustive, so please do take notice of what Oxy has said.

 

[The Mad Rapper]

Also, have a gander at elegant gnome theme, it's rather nice. I installed that because I was bored of the default ubuntu\gnome themes.

I will do, thanks!

I must confess that I do quite like the charcoal grey default theme - very nice

 

[The Mad Rapper]

http://i52.tinypic.com/xqccnk.png

here it is.. the screenshot thread seemingly has died.

Very nice, I like it

Have you a d/l link please, or is it in the installed themes? Am at work ATM so can't check...

 

[The Mad Rapper]

http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Elegant+Gnome+Pack?content=127826

Have a cookie!

 

[The Mad Rapper]

October the 10th is the big day, for the release of Ubuntu10.10.

Edit: Had a look at it, not much there, do ill stick with Mint 9.

Read again, there are significant changes. I assume you haven't even tried the Beta so have no experience of the speed improvements? Mint sucks balls IMHO, but that's the beauty of Linux - each to their own

 

[The Mad Rapper]

What are the improvements since 10.04, hope the random freeze prob. is fixed? I don't want my wireless to stop working when I upgrade like my dads did when he went from 8.04 to 10.04. So I am a bit worried about upgrading.

Download the Live CD and try it?

 

[The Mad Rapper]

I went back to .04 last night, got annoyed with 10.10, Wine wouldn't work with WoW, did a dist-upgrade

Why would you do that?

You only need to use -upgrade when moving from one point release to another. After a fresh install, you only need to -update, or just use the Update Manager and install any new system packages that way.

 

[The Mad Rapper]

It took me all of about two minutes to find a guide and to change the buttons to the right hand side.

It may have been kind if you'd posted said link for your other forum members...

 

[The Mad Rapper]

Is 10.10 going to be an LTS release of is it still going to be 10.4.1?

10.04 is the LTS for the foreseeable...

 

[The Mad Rapper]

Just a reminder for anyone interested - the full 10.10 release is available tomorrow. The 10.10 RC is available already, so you could d/l that and just dist-upgrade if you wanted to.

 

[The Mad Rapper]

Didn't think you had to do a dist-upgrade to be at the release level (unless they do release a new kernel version).

I think just a normal apt-get upgrade would do the trick to download whatever packages are the current ones.

Not that the concept of "release version" means as much as it does with Windows anyway

Quite right, thanks.

Or just use the Update Manager