Ubuntu 10.10 beta preview

[Basil Chupin]

*THE LATEST OUTING* of Canonical's Linux distribution Ubuntu shows that 
the firm is on the right track to make it the default choice of Linux 
for those thinking of making the switch from Windows.

Following on from one of the year's biggest operating system launches, 
Ubuntu 10.04 
<http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/review/1653815/ubuntu-linux-1004-lucid-lynx>, 
this latest 10.10 beta 
<http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download> is somewhat more 
sedate, almost lacking in the visual novelty that its predecessor had. 
While 10.04 was a Long Term Support release (LTS), 10.10 will be a 
standard release that comes with 18 months of updates. Not only are LTS 
releases more infrequent, the longer life and more consistent branding 
and support of 10.04 will mean that 10.10 and later releases until the 
next LTS version will always be the act that followed The Beatles.

The latest 10.10 beta shows that Canonical is sticking to its plan of 
refining Ubuntu into a polished product that will rival not Microsoft's 
Windows 7 but Apple's Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Linux distributions have 
focused far too long on the inner workings of the operating system 
rather than the interface presented to the user. As a kernel, Linux has 
been more than a match for Windows' NT or OS X's Mach kernels, but an 
operating system isn't completely defined by its underlying kernel and 
10.10 pays much needed attention to the upper layers.

[More...]

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/review/1735553/ubuntu-1010-beta-preview

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