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Posted by AceNik on May 12, 2010•
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Ubuntu 10.04 is out today, and there are quite a few improvements in “Lucid Lynx,” a long-term support release. What’s worth checking out, beyond the geeky guts? A pretty nifty social manager, a great music store, faster boot-ups, and more.
We took a look at what was new in the Lucid Lynx beta just over a month ago, and some of those features—the Mac-style, left-side window buttons, the default theme—are debatable bits of style, which can be easily changed (including the buttons). Having actually used Ubuntu for work and play, on and off for about a month, here’s what sticks out about it, from a user’s perspective.
Update: Phoronix, among other blogs, is noting a critical bug that will affect some users of certain Ubuntu distributions—namely, boot options for non-Ubuntu partitions can stop working. The fix is to run sudo update-grub from a terminal, or after hitting Alt+F2 for a prompt, and Ubuntu is working on “re-spinning” the ISO images that are affected.
Boot-up
Ubuntu is continuing its obsession with improving boot-up times. I didn’t notice it on the first, second, or maybe even third start-up of the Ubuntu daily build I’ve been using for the past week, but now Ubuntu 10.04 starts up at a pretty unbelievable pace, on a 2.0 GHz system with 2 GB of physical memory. If Ubuntu wants to start winning hearts and minds among the laptop, netbook, and, heck, tablet communities, super-fast startup is a good goal to have.
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