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jester
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 Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2025 5:47 pm Post subject: Ubuntu-10.10 (alpha, beta, RC, and final) |
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Alpha-1 of Maverick Meerkat released
| Ubuntu Forums - Maverick Meerkat Testing & Discussion wrote: | | Alpha 1, the first milestone release of the Maverick Meerkat development cycle leading to Ubuntu 10.10.10, has been released. Refer to the links below for more information |
Release Schedule here
They are going for 10 October 2025 for 10.10 - an element of gimmick in that but why not?
| Code: | jester@blackswan:~$ lsb_release -c
Codename: maverick |
Not everyone's cup of tea, but Ubuntu 10.04 won me over enough to keep with it.
As with 10.04, I thought it would make sense to keep it to a single thread - looking forward to reading your experiences with 10.10
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| Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2025 11:34 am Post subject: |
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@melloe: thanks for linking the alpha1s
Personally I'm going the upgrade from 10.04 route. So far not bad but observed to date are:
1) the grub2 menu is not auto-updating with the newer kernels, no biggie if you know how that all works, if you don't then I see a problem, but then again, it is alpha...
2) updates broke gwibber (gwib what?) - not a massive issue for me as the whole social network thing is not a mainstay of my linux life - for some though, this may entail some perceived pain, again it's alpha so...
For those of you interested in where 10.10 is going the links for different flavours of Maverick in this post on the Ubuntu forums for Development Plan summaries could be interesting http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.html?t=1498079
Despite the gwibber breakage, the rest of Ubuntu seems to be handling the update grafts very well - amd64, flash and other codecs still working fine.
I am still convinced by Ubuntu in a way that I'd never have imagined even 6 months ago. Is it perfect? No. I still fire up my Arch and Funtoo partitions, but in my current situation, even a testing alpha Ubuntu is a better option. In 6 months' time, you may see me post a different opinion.
For those interested, this is a relatively low risk testing cycle so far, though (even if I don't do it myself) a spare partition/VM might be the way to go until it gets to RC.
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| Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2025 10:08 pm Post subject: |
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I am sold on Kubuntu as one of my mainstays.
Last several testing cycles, I have taken at least one install from the ALPHA's thought to the final. Amazingly few gotcha's
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Away we go!!!
Here with PC OS first time in a while. soon to have 10.4 or 5, but they are talking about switching TO the Fedora base down the road. ???
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