Ubuntu-10.10 (alpha, beta, RC, and final)

jester · Sr. Member Joined: 19 Apr 2024 Posts: 1165

melloe · Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2024 12:18 am Post subject: the rest of the *bumtu's A1

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2010-

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/maverick/alpha-1/ (Ubuntu)
http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/releases/maverick/alpha-1/ (Ubuntu Server for UEC and EC2)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/maverick/alpha-1/ (Kubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/maverick/alpha-1/ (Xubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/maverick/alpha-1/ (Ubuntu Studio)

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jester · Sr. Member Joined: 19 Apr 2024 Posts: 1165

@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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melloe · Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2024 10:08 pm Post subject:

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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mell0: 1. Kubuntu, XP, Sabayon 2. Mandriva,Mint, Mephis
Thor: 1. VISTA, Fedora 2. Chakra, Debian
Sam:XP, SuSE Zues: win7, SuSE testing

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