There are barely two days until the launch of Ubuntu 11.10, and although the potato does not move me much this date, I cannot help but admit that interesting news is coming for its users. Let's see a few from above.
UbuntuFont.
Let's start with the section that I like the most about this distribution, its typography. As we have already mentioned before, oneric Incorporates new variants for Ubuntu Font Family. It is possible that Ubuntu Font Monospace comes by default in the terminal.
Wallpapers.
The default funds have also been renewed, we already talked about them in Desdelinux y we leave the link to download them.
LightThemes.
Another thing that fascinates me about Ubuntu and that has been slightly retouched to give them a more sober and elegant look: The themes gtk ambience y Radiance. Now the toolbar is also black (in the case of ambience).
Unity and Compiz.
Unity it is adding improvements and gaining in stability and maturity. Perfectly integrated with Compiz, now we have the option bias for Alt + Tab. With this option, the preferred applications will be shown first.
The icon of Ubuntu has left the panel and went to the launcher and the Dash show beautiful transparencies with effect Blur, plus other features.
LightDM
Goodbye to the ugly GDM de Gnome. LightDM is a renewed session manager that includes, in addition to better accessibility, the possibility of log in with a 3D Avatar.
Ubuntu Software Center.
The Software Center de Ubuntu. Now it looks more like an app store, with a new icon for the launcher built in.
More packages in the DVD version.
Version DVD will have more controllers, NVIDIA, ATI and bcmwl-kernel-source. We can get additional desktop packages like XChat, Nautilus-gksu o liferea. There will be more dictionaries and more documentation packages.
More much more….
There are other details that escape me, because I do not use Ubuntu, but which we will talk about once they make the official launch and we test it thoroughly.
I am very anxious! counting the hours to be able to download the DVD version.
Anxious!
Actually this version does not attract my attention, maybe because Gnome3 does not attract me much 🙂
Remember that Unity is the default, not Gnome3
Unity is a Gnome 3 Shell, so technically Yes it uses Gnome3, although not Gnome Shell, or so I understand: S
At this precise moment Unity is a Shell but for Gnome2, if later they pass / port all Unity for GTK3, then it would be a Shell for Gnome3.
The point is that all or almost all when they say "Gnome3", they actually mean Gnome3 + GnomeShell hehe.
In fact, Unity is already ported to Gtk3
Yes I know, but this is the first version of Ubuntu (distro with more followers) that will give the possibility to try Gnome3, and when I say try it I mean something simple, not how it is now that you must configure a PPA, install packages and send the demon Unity consciously 🙂
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After years of using Ubuntu on my PC. Install even your betas and RC. Version 11.04 involved migrating to other options.
Similar happened to me with my netbook. Always in notebook or now in the small netbook I used Fedora with Gnome. Since the last version I had to migrate.
So Unity and Gnome 3 seem to me that for now they do not satisfy my needs (I do not criticize those who do serve them). But the truth is that the stability of Debian on my PC and surprised by PCLinuxOS on the netbook, this date passes without as much enthusiasm as it was in old Ubuntu releases.
That is another thing, that Unity or Gnome3 do not satisfy our expectations, adapted to the simplicity of Gnome for example, it does not mean that for others it is a bad distro. I agree with you.
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
Let's be honest. Whenever a new version of Ubuntu came out, Uncle Mark promised big changes that always boiled down to slight tweaks to the Gtk or icon theme. Now the changes are evident, Unity (either a copy of Mac or Next ..) is setting its own path and is giving Ubuntu its own identity, I repeat, whether it is a copy or not.
What other distro (except Ubunty and ElementaryOS) has dedicated itself to creating an improved interface for its users? Because I haven't seen one yet that has. Yes, some improve their KDEs, others their Gnomes, but that's not the way to go. They are the same old desktop environments.
Didn't they want changes? Well there you have them.
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Looking at it from that way or point of view, yes, you're right ... we asked for changes and now they are making an appearance, but man come on ... we ask for changes, but changes for the better not for the worse. The more Ubuntu versions come to light, the more bugs and instability they present ¬_¬
Tell me one thing: What do you use to say everything you are saying? Because as far as I know I have not seen an updated Ubuntu 11.10 Beta on any of your PCs. I have not seen that you have thoroughly tested Unity to say that Ubuntu has more and more Bugs. Do not speak from what others say, test and criticize based on it.
Note: It is not that I defend Ubuntu, but do not be like the same users that Courage criticizes so much, who provide false data in post to defend the distribution they use.
Tried Unity on Natty hence my opinion, when 11.10 comes out MAYBE I will test it on virtual PC.
And… ah… I rely on the fact that I saw (like you) how the number of bugs and instability level increased between 8.04 and the current 10.10, on that I rely, on that I base my opinion, do not forget that I also use Ubuntu for years, so I have been able to verify how much the versions of this distro have "matured" ¬_¬
Unity in Natty, Natty…. That sounds like me .. Ahh yes, you tried a Unity that has had 6 months of updates, improvements and bug fixes. Come on partner, who are you kidding?
HAHAHA nobody, I already told you ... they don't pay me more or less to bring or remove Ubuntu users LOL.
When I tried it it was up to date, hence my opinion. If I didn't know you… I'd say you're a huge Ubuntu and Unity fan HAHAHAHA
I'm not a fan of Ubuntu though, I do like Unity. Tell me what you want, but I love the Mac philosophy. I love that it brings something new that no one has ever provided for a Linux distribution before. The only thing I don't like is that for now, it is only for Ubuntu.
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That in the link that I leave below, he brought a flamewar to his blog that touched the fibers quite a bit.
Hahaha I would say that they pay him to speak badly of archlinux and good of Ubuntu, the truth is that the thing is strange, it will be that they kidnapped elav and they changed him for some employee of Mark.
Hahaha man, if Uncle Mark paid me, the blog would change its name and it would be called <° Ubuntu (FromUbuntu) hahaha .. I have to copyright the little name just in case ¬¬
Mandriva did it in his day, which is now falling apart.
Another thing, if Gnome is easy to use it is to the credit of the Gnome team, not Canonical
Elav refers to making it "pretty" 😉
That's what I mean, Mandriva had a nice Gnome from before
But the point is that Unity is not a pretty Gnome. It is a Shell for Gnome, and neither Mandriva nor Fedora had done that, simply put an artwork to the normal Gnome of all life.
What Mandriva did what? Well if you say so ... I do not know that. And I clarify, at no time did I say that Gnome is easy because Ubuntu makes it easy ..
¬ ¬ Do you have a good puff on Mandriva eh?
I say that because the Mandriva Gnome was prettier, and it was there before Lucid
What else do you want Fedora to do? It is not enough that the red hat is one of those that contributes the most to the gnome project. Or do you want to divide more also take out a shell?
We are not talking about the same thing. It is one thing to bring things to Gnome and quite another to make those things different and attractive to the new user. Gnome now has the Shell (for me Unity inspired) and now it's changing its traditional desktop a bit, but is it really what users need? I said Fedora like I could say Mandriva, openSUSE. And I say this because in other blogs, whenever the Ubuntu topic comes up, everyone gets together to say:
There is also the detail that a contribution is a contribution, contribution or contribution does not mean that it is for the good (although it should), it does not mean that it has to be liked by everyone.
It is as important to provide code as it is to provide users with marketing techniques. 😀
Glad Ubuntu is still in development. And hopefully it is not corrupted as its detractors expect (in every sense). For my part, I am grateful that there is a distro like it, because my experience using it has almost always been satisfactory and it has managed to have a community that I have not found (in terms of solidarity) in other distros that I have used.
regards
Not that I expect that, but they do change their minds
Mr. Thirteen, you are very, very wrong, I have not found a community more intolerant, arrogant, undocumented and bad as people than Ubuntu.
Whenever they can they mess with the other distros, insult their users, give false data and jump at you with the "we are all Linux" thing when they run out of arguments, that is, insults.
http://ext4(dot)wordpress(dot)com/2011/05/14/el-desproposito-de-caixamagica-deja-de-basarse-en-mandriva-y-se-basara-en-ubuntu/
http://elavdeveloper(dot)wordpress(dot)com/2011/05/15/ya-estoy-cansado-de-lo-mismo/
http://ext4(dot)wordpress(dot)com/2009/12/20/hablemos-con-propiedad-tipos-de-usuarios-de-ubuntu/
www (dot) muylinux (dot) com Here in almost all the articles there are ubuntos
Yes, the truth is a shame that there are people so dogmatic, intolerant and in some cases even rude who try to defend Ubuntu by disqualifying everything that is not Ubuntu. I have also come across many like this on various forums and blogs. In that I agree with you.
But I only said that, in my experience, the most supportive community I had found was Ubuntu, which does not imply that all Ubuntu users or defenders are, or even that most are (to think that this is so appeals to a fallacy of division http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falacia_de_división
I don't even consider myself a ubuntero, I really like to try different distros that fit my needs, times and knowledge (which are very few) in the matter.
Greetings.
Hello there,
I was an Ubuntu user from versions 7.X to the present, because I have tried all these versions throughout these 3 years. It's not that I want Ubuntu to get corrupted, it's that I believe it already has. If you ever used Ubuntu 8.04, Ubuntu 8.10, you will remember how great they were, almost 100% stable, and although those versions were not as nice / detailed / polished as Natty can be now, they behaved like Linux distros, that is ... stable , No problem.
It happens that when Ubuntu began to care more about how it looked, how it looked, putting details and effects of this type, there it began to be a more friendly distro, yes, but at the same time more unstable.
About the community, at least I agree with you. She is supportive, almost always gives you the solution ready to be applied, but… does this really teach anything? At least I prefer to be told «Read all this documentation that there is your solution: man find"Well, this will force me to learn.
Well anyway, everyone has their opinion and we must respect it, and as long as we all use GNU / Linux then everyone happy HAHAHA.
Greetings friend.
I also tried Ubuntu for the first time in 2007 with Feitsy Fawn (a few months before I had only tried knoppix and another livecd that I can't remember its name now). Since then I have tried almost all its versions with the exception of two or three that I missed when using some other distro. And as I said before, I have generally done well with the versions that I have tested in both functionality and stability.
Still, I know that it has not been the case for all people and not on all computers (or computers).
regards
Lucky you have been and I hope it will always be like this. The same has not happened to all, even in some, it has created incurable traumas (sneak a look at Courage) 😀
HAHAHAHA it's like with everyone. For example, Ubuntu 9.04 worked wonders for me, however in this version EXT4 and the new video driver for Intel chipsets were included, which had a lot of bugs. However haha, everything worked well for me. 😀
It also worked for me as a fucking mother!
It is not that it is a trauma, that hatred is thanks to the pseudo-community that they have, if it were not like that I could say that Ubuntu peels it and period, nothing more
By the way, I get the comments as moderates
It is because apparently you changed some data that you put before, you changed (if I'm not mistaken) the URL or website, now you belong to uL? 😀
Yes, I am helping you a little.
Well yes, the truth is that all the problems that I have encountered at some point using Ubuntu have had a solution.
Speaking of trauma, heh, the only distro that traumatized me a bit (although I later got over it) was Mandriva (the second of three times I tried it) because after a routine update everything failed (and I'm not exaggerating) until get to kernel panic, hehe.
regards
The only one that I have had problems with (because it has not raised me) has been Mageia 😀
Guys I am going to upgrade from ubuntu 10.10 to 11.10 without formatting and then install gnome shell, could there be problems ?. what should i do?
Having that jump is better that you install from scratch
I will talk to you from my experience using Ubuntu 🙂
When I made updates from for example, 8.04 to 8.10 everything went well, but in these versions where sooooo many things change (10.10 to 11.10), and more so considering that you skip 11.04, I would recommend installing this 11.10 from scratch.
Anyway, make a backup of your data and update as you have planned, if everything turns out well there will be joys haha, if it goes wrong you just have to reinstall Ubuntu, which is nothing from another world 😉
In summary ... save your important things and give it a try, do the update ... it should not work badly, but in the worst case you reinstall Ubuntu and voila 😀
If I already imagined the safest thing is the clean installation, but hey I will try the update anyway and if it goes wrong to re-install which is simple anyway. thank you both for your answers 😉
Nah a pleasure to help you 😉
Greetings and tell us how it went 😀