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- Gwibber lets you connect to Facebook, Twitter and other social media services.
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- You can choose your language before you install Ubuntu Linux.
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- Choose your time zone.
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- Pick your keyboard layout.
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- Partition your hard disk.
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- Choose your login ID and password.
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- Begin your install or hit the back button to make changes.
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- While the install is completed, you can read about Ubuntu’s features and software.
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- Reboot your computer after the install is complete.
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- When you first boot into Ubuntu, you can choose to run it as a Live CD or to install it to your hard disk.
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- The Ubuntu 10.04 desktop.
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- The login screen lets you choose your session, keyboard and language.
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- You can download additional software from the Software Center.
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- You can download plug-ins like flash for your browser.
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- After installing flash, YouTube videos will play in Firefox.
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- You can now share bookmarks and contacts via the Ubuntu One service.
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- The Ubuntu One Music Store is integrated into the Rhythmbox music player.
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- Clicking the More Info button loads a detailed description and screenshot of an application.
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Hi,
Good review. But you mention that is is not possible to cycle through desktop wallpaper. Is that really true? Cause I am now using Ubuntu 9.10 and there it is possible. In the background menu there is one directory (cosmos) already included and optionally, you can add new ones to /usr/share/backgrounds. You can even add a xml file containing the durations that a certain file should stay on the background. It would surprise me if that option is not there anymore??
Regards, Joost
Another nail in Windows Coffin. I normally hate Ubuntu but this is gooood!!! Now have it on my EeePC suffer Microsoft. Steve and Bill you’d better start crying your days are numbered!
What is Steam? I gonna have to Google it.
I think Ubuntu 10.04 has shaped up nicely. I am on currently Ubuntu 8.04 and this is the first release where I might upgrade before the end-of-life of my current version.
Morning guys,
Glad you enjoyed the review.
Joost, I checked the controls on the Appearance Preferences menu (where you change your background) and there seemed to be no way to automatically cycle through wallpaper.
Perhaps there’s another way to do it though, I’m not sure. It seems like that’s the obvious place to put controls that are similar to the ones in Mac OS X.
Zac, Steam is Valve’s gaming service. It’s not out for Linux yet but rumors are flying that it may be coming soon. It’s scheduled to arrive for Mac OS X very soon. But a Linux version might also be in the works.
I have my fingers crossed!
Mozilla is said to be already working with Google in an open video codec. Flash (and its closed source model) is past now.
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/04/google-planning-to-open-the-vp8-video-codec.ars
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/13/reports_says_google_will_open_source_on2_codec_in_may/
“Maybe Canonical could cut some kind of deal with Adobe”
Have you not been paying attention to the idiotic decisions Canonical has been making in the past 2 years? They are completely destroying Ubuntu. At the rate they are going they wont even be ON Distrowatch’s Top 100 list, let alone #1 in the next year.
“I was also unhappy to note that the Screensaver menu is separate from the Appearances menu where you change your desktop background. These two things are combined in Mac OS X on one menu (you choose one or the other from the same menu) so it’s easy to make changes. Canonical might want to give some thought to combining these two menus, it just makes a lot of sense to have them both in one place.”
That is a Linux/Gnome thing, and has NOTHING to do with Canonical. Canonical develops Ubuntu, Canonical does not develop Gnome. I would suggest you actually study up on Linux for a bit before you write reviews about it.
I have installed a program called “Desktop Drapes” which will automatically change the wallpaper at times you define, as well as the location of the folder that holds your pics. It’s an okay program, does what it supposed to. My only fault with it, it crashed a couple of times and once didn’t start on reboot. Other than that, it worked okay. It’s in the Software Center!
Actually, it doesn’t have “the latest version of gnome.”
10.04 comes with gnome 2 for stability. Gnome 3 has been released, install gnome-shell to get it.
Ballsack, I noted the version of GNOME in the What’s New. Thanks for the heads up.
In response to “ballsack”- nice name by the way.
Gnome 3 has NOT been released. It is still in development cycle, and is considered a Beta at this point. From experience, I can assure you that gnome 2.29 is not stable, and is not ready for daily use yet. Hopefully it will be released in full 3rd or 4th quarter this year.
In response to the writer-
This is not a “review”, it is a comparison. How many of your conclusions of Lucid, favorable or otherwise, did you base entirely in comparisons made to OSX? It was no small number of times. Please, writer; and readers for that matter; remember that Ubuntu / GNU-Linux isn’t supposed to be a clone or a carbon copy of Windows, OSX, or any other OS (other than Unix, but that’s beside the point :) ). It was created and is developed today as a valid desktop and server alternative, a free standing pillar amongst them. A review of Windows would be no more valid if the entire thing was a comparison to features found in GNU-Linux. It’s comparing apples to oranges to bananas. Yes, they are all fruit, but do you describe a banana’s flavor as “not-orange-like?” to someone who has never eaten a banana?
I apologize for preaching, but I can’t help but be slightly discouraged by the fact that after all this time, people in our Linux community are still looking for “OSX, but not Apple”.
@ Ballsack:
>> “10.04 comes with gnome 2 for stability. Gnome 3 has been released, install gnome-shell to get it.”
According to gnome.org version 2.30 was released on 31. of March.
Where can I download the release (non-alpha). I don’t see it on ubuntu.com yet.
If it works out of the box with my ATI Card, ill go Ubuntu otherwise im keeping my Windows 7