The official stable release of Ubuntu 10.04 is only days away. That means we can finally list all of the new features to expect in the next longterm-support version of Ubuntu, without having the developers change them every other day. With that in mind, here’s a look at what to expect when you upgrade to Lucid Lynx on Thursday.
As a word of introduction, I’d like to observe that Ubuntu’s official release dates have always seemed a bit arbitrary to me. They’re set months in advance, and are adhered to regardless of the state of the code itself.
This is to say that although Thursday is the official big day, the date is significant only because we deem it significant. If you’re going to upgrade, you might as well do it today and beat the traffic, since not much will change between now and Thursday (and the damning X memory leak introduced last week has already been fixed. But that’s just my advice.
What’s New
Whether you upgrade today, Thursday or in July, here’s everything (or at least mostly everything–please feel free to politely point out the changes we’ve inevitably missed) new that you can expect on your desktop:
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