This post is going to be a follow up to another post I did a while back called Social-Development or Self-Development, It’s not critical but I recommend you go and read it first, you can find it HERE. First I’d like to mention that it took me a while to think of the title, the best I could come up with is Group Mastery. I know what it means in my head, but I don’t know how to explain it in English, I’ll try anyway. Continue reading
News from version 1.6
The developers say that they have been working hard to give the ultimate netbook experience. In the release candidate 1.6, there was a new boot-up system and new graphics, so called “artwork”. The HAL system is no longer used which is said to improve boot-up time and wake-up time. the developers say that the improvements give the system a 25% faster boot-up. The new interface contains integration with the social networks Twitter, Identi.ca and Facebook. There’s improved support for Nvidia‘s proprietary drivers and includes a new open-source driver.
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Reference: Datormagazin, Sweden
Like some of the other Ubuntu releases, Lucid Lynx is LTS or “Long Term Support” meaning that the desktop version will be supported for three years and the server version for five years. This version also comes with a netbook version, with improved boot-up time.
Now to the stuff i want to talk about, The desktop in this Ubuntu version is social even from the first boot-up in the form of a built in integration in the panels Memenu, with Twitter, Identi.ca, Facebook and other social networks. A new design with cleaner boot-up, a new area for messages and a new desktop background should, according too the developers, give the distro a new fancy look, there’s also a new theme with new icons.
On the server side theres been allot of improvement on cloud computing and also a few security updates, There’s now Apparmor profiles for key features and a easily configured firewall.
Reference: Datormagazin, Sweden