Can't Wait Another Week for Ubuntu 9.10? Download the Release Candidate Today
Can't Wait Another Week for Ubuntu 9.10? Download the Release Candidate Today
Posted 10/23/2009 at 8:00am
| by Paul Lilly
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On October 29, which is now less than a week away, Linux users will have a new Ubuntu release to play with. But if you just can't wait that long, especially with all the hoopla surrounding the launch of Windows 7 making you jones for a new OS, consider downloading the Ubuntu 9.10 Release Candidate that was just made available.
"We consider this release candidate to be complete, stable, and suitable for testing by any user," the Ubuntu team wrote on its blog.
Several new features have been added to the open source OS since the release of Ubuntu 9.04. For example, 9.10 makes the transition to Upstart native jobs for faster boot times, Empathy has replaced Pidgin as the default messaging client, the latest release ships with Ubuntu One, a personal cloud computing app allowing you to backup, store, sync, and share data with other Ubuntu One users, Canonical claims the inclusion of new Intel video driver architecture solves "major performance problems," the new ext4 file system is now used by default, and a whole bunch more.
See the full list of changes (and known problems) here, and if you're itching to try out the RC, you can download your copy here.
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lien_meat
October 26, 2009 at 10:59am
The beta had some bugs. Like it telling me that it had a program or something crash every time I booted it, despite everything working perfectly fine (can't remember what, cause I stopped caring). Also, the beta's pulseaudio implementation wasn't quite up to par (no surprize there...), and I frequently had to kill it to keep my computer running usably.
However, the RC seems to have fixed every single issue I have noticed in the beta. I'm pretty happy with it so far.
Note also, the beta was more satisfying to run from a usability perspective for me than is windows7 even with the beta's bugs, but the RC really drives home all the stuff I like about ubuntu (performance is a big one, security is another, easy maintainence/stability another...and I like gnome lots too)
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Devo85x
October 23, 2009 at 12:38pm
I am using the 9.10 beta now but was having some problems with it, hopefully this will fix them!
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