Ubuntu 10.10 is Released

[news 28]

Some time ago a group of hyper-intelligent pan dimensional beings

decided to finally answer the great question of Life, The Universe and

Everything. To this end, a small band of these Debians built an

incredibly powerful distribution, Ubuntu. After this great computer

programme had run (a very quick 3 million minutes...or 6 years) the

answer was announced. The Ultimate answer to Life, the Universe and

Everything is...42, and in its' purest form 101010. Which suggests that

what you really need to know is 'What was the Question?'. The great

distribution kindly pointed out that what the problem really was that

no-one knew the question. Accordingly, the distribution designed a set

of successors, marked by a circle of friends...to ultimately bring Unity

to all things living...Ubuntu 10.10, to find the question to the

ultimate answer.

 

And with that, the Ubuntu team is pleased to announce Ubuntu 10.10.

Codenamed "Maverick Meerkat", 10.10 continues Ubuntu's proud tradition

of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a

high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution.

 

Read more about the features of Ubuntu 10.10 in the following press

releases:

 

Desktop and Netbook editions

http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-10.10-desktop-edition

Server edition

http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-10.10-server-edition

 

Canonical has also launched the ‘Ubuntu Server on Cloud 10’ program.

Anyone will be able to try out Ubuntu 10.10 Server Edition on Amazon EC2

for free for one hour. Visitors to the download pages will now be able

to choose to experience the ease and speed of public cloud computing and

Ubuntu. For a direct link to the trial, please go to

http://10.cloud.ubuntu.com

 

Ubuntu 10.10 will be supported for 18 months on desktops, netbooks, and

servers.

 

Thanks to the efforts of the global translation community, Ubuntu is

available in 37 languages. For a list of supported languages and

detailed

translation statistics for these and other languages, see:

 

http://people.ubuntu.com/~dpm/ubuntu-10.10-translation-stats.html

 

Ubuntu 10.10 is also the basis for new 10.10 releases of Kubuntu,

Xubuntu, Edubuntu, UbuntuStudio, and Mythbuntu:

 

Kubuntu http://kubuntu.org/news/10.10-release

Xubuntu http://xubuntu.org/news/10.10-release

Edubuntu http://edubuntu.org/news/10.10-release

Mythbuntu http://mythbuntu.org/10.10/release

Ubuntu Studio https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/10.10release_notes

 

To Get Ubuntu 10.10

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To download Ubuntu 10.10, or obtain CDs, visit:

 

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu

 

Users of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS will be offered an automatic upgrade to 10.10

via Update Manager. For further information about upgrading, see:

 

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading

 

As always, upgrades to the latest version of Ubuntu are entirely free of

charge.

 

We recommend that all users read the release notes, which document

caveats and workarounds for known issues. They are available at:

 

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/1010

 

Find out what's new in this release with a graphical overview:

 

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/1010overview

 

If you have a question, or if you think you may have found a bug but

aren't sure, try asking on the #ubuntu IRC channel, on the Ubuntu Users