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Ubuntu 10.10 released to beta

The beta instalment of Ubuntu's Maverick Meerkat has arrived slightly earlier than expected. The Linux distro team on Thursday said they'd delivered the Ubuntu 10.10 beta, when the code's Alpha 4 had been expected instead. No reason was given for the change, but the plan remains for final delivery of the code as intended on …

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Michael 28
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Upgrader to alpha 3 last week..

....and cleaned out a defunct ntfs partition at the same time.(Now running BTRFS).

It's NICE!!!

JimND

I'll take a look at it but...

https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page says there's no fsck for btrfs yet, so I'll leave testing that for a while.

MarcusMarcus

Early?

Why were you expecting Alpha 4? 10.10 roadmap shows they are right on time as scheduled.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MaverickReleaseSchedule.

FYI, The Release Candidate is coming out September 30th :)

junkbit

10.10.10

The schedule is a little compressed this time around. Normally it would arrive at the end of October but they are trying to ship on the 10th so that the date will be 10/10/10

Thad
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That's

A bit numerologically corny, isn't it?

Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward
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hmmmmmmm

Guess that makes it the Tri-ten release then :-)

Sam Liddicott

Still can't configure gome screen-saver though

It's been 5 years and it's still not possible to configure any of the standard screen-savers "out of the box".

Windows as always allowed that - so I guess Ubuntu are a long way from fixing bug number 1

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1

Thad
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Do you really ...

Judge an operating system by its screensavers?

Doesn't sound like you are a very productive computer user!

Chemist

Re : Still can't configure gome screen-saver though

You are joking ?

Eric Pedersen
Linux

@Sam

Isn't it just System - Preferences - Screensaver...?

jgw
FAIL

the code's Alpha 4 had been expected instead?

Don't know why the beta came as such a surprise - as the above poster indicated, the schedule has been on the wiki since mid May. Oh could journos stop referring to Linux distros as 'code' please ...

Michael Dunn

Sorry!

Must be a senior moment - I read that as providing a "lunch menu" down the left-hand side!

Note 10/10 (as a date) is a big day in Taiwan - National Day (when the revolution led by Sun Yat Sen started.)

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