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."

Re:Funny no mention of Fedora 13 rcs

[Anonymous Coward]

Is Redhat doing anything cool?

Redhat is like having a wife of decades. You imagine what it would be like to have the young hot thing, then you realize that you prefer your partner of many years. You know her well but you still learn new things, She changes a little every year but not so much as to be a shock. She's comfortable. You remember when she was a young thing called Red Hat - yeah, red head baby! She was the IT girl and you had her. But as you get more mature and tired, you want something tried and true. You know she's reliable and she'll be there for you. The young chicky, though exiting and doing all the new and unpredictable things, just adds too much excitement to your life. I know, regardless of what happens, my darling Fedora will be there and perform.

Linux Zealot 'Reviews' Ubuntu...

[Anonymous Coward]

And the rest of the computing media pretty much has given up on even pretending desktop Linux ever going to be something greater than a 1 percent OS.

* A mishmash of competing desktop interfaces

* A mishmash of competing user interface toolkits and standards

* A mishmash of half-assed sound solutions

* A mishmash of half-assed clones of commercial applications

* Amateur typography - rampant kerning and other text layout problems

Sounds par for an OS worked on by Bearded GNU Freaks sitting around at home playing World of Warcraft on their secret Windows partitions and taking bong hits all day instead of showering, driving to work, and putting in 40+ hour work weeks fixing and implementing stuff that matters to users rather than whatever crap they happen to feel like working on.

Re:Nothing Happened Today......

[tuppe666]

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.

Re:Funny no mention of Fedora 13 rcs

[Anonymous Coward]

Fedora: One release a year. Ubuntu: Releases every six months or so; hence why the extra press.

It's not the extra part that bothers me, it is literally twice as much press for Ubuntu and I just don't see how you can justify ...
uh...
never mind.

Re:pulse, pulse, pulse, *pop* *stutter* pulse, pul

[Nyeerrmm]

So... don't install the proprietary DEBs... I fail to see how making such software easily available puts you at risk.

Re:pulse, pulse, pulse, *pop* *stutter* pulse, pul

[siride]

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.