Time to revive this section...

[Gache]

Yep, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 'Lucid Lynx' has been released.

A few headline features:

• New themes: the old 'Humanity' concept & themes have been replaced with two themes on a 'light'-based concept - Ambiance and Radiance.
  
• Faster startup: not only does it boot quicker (nearly halved the time on my netbook), but it's usable faster - no more staring at your desktop waiting for everything to load.
  
• Revamped Software Center.
  
• Social media,chat & email integrated into the Me Menu and Messaging Menu. (May not sound exciting, but combining Gwibber, Empathy and Evolution or Thunderbird with the new indicators really makes this stuff quicker & easier )
  
• Ubuntu One music store integrated into the music player.
  
• Improved & extended Ubuntu One sync for other stuff like bookmarks, contacts, notes & photos.
  
• Pitivi video editor (at last Ubuntu gets a video editor by default - and a pretty decent one at that).
  

That doesn't look a terribly long list, does it? But 10.04 Lucid is one of those releases where the little things make the biggest difference. The overall feel is that Ubuntu has moved up a level - it's time to take seriously Mark Shuttleworth's aim of competing with OS X on quality. We're not there yet, but Ubuntu is getting there.

- Gache

[Scott Mitchell]

Hah Hah...this reminds me of something I came across yesterday...

The box listed the requirements as Windows XP or better, so I installed Linux.

[firefly2442]

Oh dang! I almost forgot about this. Thanks for reminding me. I'm anxious to see if there are noticeable speed improvements on my laptop. Runs great on my desktop and server.