Looking good so far...
I've been using Lucid on my primary laptop for the last three weeks - and it's _good_. None of the beta issues you'd expect. WAY more solid than Karmic on release - and, tbh, for a month or two after release...
Thursday is D-Day - meaning Download Day - for the new Ubuntu 10.04 Long Term Support release from commercial Linux distributor Canonical. And this release is shaping up to be a watershed event for the upstart distro. That's true not only on the desktop and on the server, but among the software development community that wants …
Good article, but the point about the Ubuntu Software Centre got me thinking - allowing it to divert (slightly?) into an iTunes Music Store clone might not be a bad idea. I'm guessing that the USC would be the opposite of ITMS in that the latter has mainly paid-for content, whereas USC would be mainly free content.
I'm thinking that most people would probably welcome an "easier" way to buy closed-source software for Ubuntu - heck it might even act as a catalyst to get more apps out. After all, people seem to like ITMS, so a version without the stalinist actvities of Apple and more "open" as a result has to be good - right? And I'm guessing that vendors would also like a quick/easy/cheap way of getting their code out there.
Interesting times beckon.
So their shipping with a nasty KDE4.4 regression and a information disclosure problem with the screen saver then (when a machine un-hibernates, you can see the screen before the screensaver starts) ? Charming...
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdebase-workspace/+bug/553557 for the KDE4.4 power problems, for instance. Vote please :-)
"...allow developers to quickly create and distribute applications to Ubuntu users without having to go through the same tedious beta and release candidate cycle of the operating system itself."
I hope these untested applications will be clearly marked out to potential users before they install them.