Ubuntu 10.04 LTS review από το Ars Technica.com

During a keynote at the OSCON conference in 2008, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth urged the Linux development community to improve its focus on usability. He vowed that Canonical would contribute financial and technical resources to help make Linux more beautiful and functional. He aimed to raise the bar and set a whole new standard—not just for Linux, but for the entire desktop computing industry.

"The great task ahead of us over the next two years is to lift the experience of the Linux desktop from something that is stable and robust and not so pretty, to something which is art," he said in 2008. "Not emulate, but blow right past Apple in the user experience we deliver to our end users."

The Linux platform has evolved considerably in the two years that have passed since he set that goal, and Ubuntu 10.04, which was officially released last week, offers us an opportunity to evaluate the progress that Canonical and the Ubuntu community have made in their collaborative pursuit of Shuttleworth's ambitious vision.

The new version of Ubuntu is codenamed Lucid Lynx, and is a long-term support (LTS) release, which means that package updates will be available for an extended duration. Typical Ubuntu versions get 18 months of updates, but LTS releases are supported for three years on desktop computers and five years on servers. The LTS releases are important because the longer support cycle tends to attract the interest of hardware vendors and business users.

This is Ubuntu's chance to prove itself as a worthy contender for the mainstream desktop. In this in-depth review, we will take a close look at some of the new features and attempt to determine if Lucid Lynx purrs or growls.

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Πρώτα απ' όλα ΠΡΕΠΕΙ να το διαβάσετε όλο το review. Έπειτα αν χρησιμοποιείτε Windows (μπλιαχ) κατεβάστε ΤΩΡΑ το Ubuntu 10.04 LTS και εγκαταστήστε το. Αν πάλι έχετε Mac και θέλετε να πειραματιστείτε με τον καλύτερο κλώνο του Mac OS που έγινε ποτέ κάντε πάλι το ίδιο.

Το Ubuntu είναι εδώ και χρόνια τρόπος ζωής. Η σχέση τιμής/απόδοσης απλά δεν έχει αντίπαλο. Τρέχει σχεδόν σε όλους τους Η/Υ του πλανήτη. Απλά τα σπάει. ΦΥΣΙΚΑ και μπορεί να έχει προβλήματα και ελλείψεις αλλά από την άλλη είναι αιώνες μπροστά από τα Windows και είναι ΔΩΡΕΑΝ!!!

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