Sunday, December 31, 2017
Ubuntu 10 10 Maverick Meerkat Beta Overview Screenshots
Ubuntu 10 10 Maverick Meerkat Beta Overview Screenshots
Were less than one month until the next Ubuntu release, 10.10. Maverick Meerkat, as it is codenamed, is scheduled for release on October 10, 2010, and, as always, Canonical put out a beta calling for users to test-drive it and report problems and bugs.
Heres what Ubuntu 10.10 has to offer:
- Linux kernel 2.6.35
- GNOME 2.31, including Nautilus as a file manager, Rhythmbox as a music player, Totem as the default video player, Empathy Instant Messaging client
- OpenOffice 3.2 suite, including the Writer, Spreadsheet, Presentation and Drawing, (doesnt that Oracle logo look awkward when the splash-screen appears?)
- Mozilla Firefox 3.6.9
- Evolution 2.30 email client
Also, Shotwell has replaced F-Spot as the default photo manager.
Shotwell 0.7.1 - the new photo manager in Ubuntu 10.10
I made a clean, fresh installation of the beta and performed a through sudo apt-get dist-upgrade, in order to make sure all the packages benefit from the latest fixes and improvements. Heres how a usual Ubuntu 10.10 Beta desktop looks like:
Ubuntu 10.10 Beta with Ubuntu Software Center; notice the theme used is Ambiance, a dark theme keeping the characteristic brownish style
All the screenshots were taken using the Normal desktop effects option.
GNOME Terminal using the transparency effect
I dont know if its me but Rhythmbox seems to get harder to use from version to version. I couldnt get it to list my music files, not in the media library, nor in the playlist.
Rhythmbox 0.13.1 music player
The help center has some font displaying issues, which will hopefully get fixed by the time Ubuntu final will be released
Totem movie player
The System->Preferences menu allows to customise aspects like appearance, edit the applications to be shown in the menu, change the screensaver, configure keyboard, mouse etc.
Ubuntu Preferences menu
Changing GNOME theme
Firefox 3.6.9 - Ubuntu comes with the latest version of the powerful Firefox web browser
As final impressions, Maverick Meerkat seems promising: its pretty stable and it surely looks like a usual Ubuntu release, nothing more or less. Some bugs still have to be fixed and the theme makes the Firefox menu entries to be unreadable.
