I could not wait anymore. Yesterday, I upgraded ubuntu to the latest Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. This one is called Lucid Lynx. Dunno how these guys ever come up with names. Its great how the next version comes out every 6 months on the dot. The LTS i.e. Long Term Support releases come out every one in two years.
Generally its advisable to wait till the beta, since its relatively more stable. But its pretty stable till now. Although, I did encounter some random nautilus crashes. Should be fixed by april when the stable release version releases.
Some new features of Lucid Lynx (that I have noticed till now) :
1. New default theme – bbye dirty brown default theme. The new theme is biased towards purple instead of brown which was favored by the ‘Human’ theme.
2. Much faster bootup. It can be lesser than 10 seconds on netbooks. My own laptop used to boot up in 30-40 seconds in the previous version. Now, it does it in around 15 seconds.
3. The latest GNOME just seems zippier. Its quicker than karmic. I reckon it looks better too … or maybe thats just compiz …
4. Some new software – the main one I noticed was Gwibber – its a neat social networking app. So now I can use facebook and twitter from desktop itself.
A bit about the ubuntu version numbering – it is <version number>.<month>.
Found out about this recently, though i’d share it. This is the reason, 10.04 releases in april … 9.10 karmic released in october … 9.04 in april …