Natty Alpha 3

[Tom H]

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 10:12 AM, <clintin at linuxmail.org> wrote:


> On first logon, which I assume was the Ubuntu Desktop (Unity based). I
> created a terminal launcher so I could do the command line work. First
> thing I did was make sure the Nvidia driver was installed (it wasn't) but
> still no desktop icons, after a couple hours of fussing with desktop
> including down load time and updates, I finally got both desktops working
> (Classic and Ubuntu) and I don't like either even though Ubuntu looks nice,
> the Applications windows is on overload with all application icons showing,
> it should have had a by group option just as the Classic has. Classic
> "didn't work" was my first thought because I couldn't find the menu drop
> down until I spotted the little down arrow scrunched at far right of the
> task bar next to the Ubuntu icon.

I like the 11.04 look of both Unity and "Classic" GNOME - except for
the colors (but I've never liked Ubuntu colors). Unity's lack of
configurability is a PitA though. I'd like to be able to resize the
dock on the left, re-order the icons on it, and resize the icons in
the "Applications" window. This window seems to be the in-vogue method
of launching apps that aren't in a dock/launcher/menu because of the
iPhone/iPad. Apple next iteration of OS X will have a similar setup
("Launchpad").


> Two more pfennigs: I loaded up my webserver configuration on Natty and
> found some of the packages were the same as 10.10!

I don't know to which packages you're referring in "webserver
configuration" but if apache2's one of the applications involved,
you're being rather harsh with the developers - both Apache's and
Ubuntu's. You can't expect major changes in every package every six
months. :)

Apache's current release is 2.2.17 and its development release is
2.3.11. Check out the various updates below from the changelog.

NATTY UPDATES:
apache2 (2.2.17-1ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low
apache2 (2.2.17-1) unstable; urgency=low
apache2 (2.2.16-6ubuntu3) natty; urgency=low
apache2 (2.2.16-6ubuntu2) natty; urgency=low
apache2 (2.2.16-6ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low
apache2 (2.2.16-6) unstable; urgency=low
apache2 (2.2.16-5) unstable; urgency=medium
apache2 (2.2.16-4ubuntu2) natty; urgency=low
apache2 (2.2.16-4ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low
apache2 (2.2.16-4) unstable; urgency=medium
apache2 (2.2.16-3ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low
apache2 (2.2.16-3) unstable; urgency=high
apache2 (2.2.16-2) unstable; urgency=low

LAST MAVERICK UPDATE:
apache2 (2.2.16-1ubuntu3) maverick; urgency=low


> I realize that this is an Alpha release but hey, we are less than 60 days
> out from the public release date and Ubuntu is still calling it Alpha.

There's about a week less between the release of alpha 3 and the final
release for Natty than there had been for Maverick and Lucid...