Ubuntu 10.04 arrives with extended support (and less brown )

[Scotty]

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/04/ubuntu-1004-arrives-with-extended-support-and-less-brown.ars

[bubba]

i think ill stick with 9.10, still works perfectly fine :D

[JoEL]

Been quite interested in Ubuntu. My friend and I have been playing around with it.

Scotty, you going to post what you think of this? Or are you the entertainment/news finder guy, who makes topics with a link and nothing more? (serious question)

[Scotty]

I upgraded a couple of days ago to 10.04, and so far, I haven't had a whole lot of time to explore around with it.  I use it exclusively on my laptop now as my own web server.  I may have to wind up wiping and re-installing from scratch as it stands.  The first thing that I noticed was that upon upgrading, my fglrx drivers shat the bed, and I've been unable to reinstall them.  Not so much of a problem since this is essentially meant to be nothing more than a server, so who needs video drivers, but none the less, it does get annoying when I go to update and I get presented an error every time telling me that three packages are marked as crashed and I need to repair (which breaks them again) them.

Thus far, I haven't been able to figure out the Gwibber integration.  It seems like a very nifty inclusion to the desktop environment, but for some reason, I can't get it to take my Facebook account and have it stick.  I can log in with it, but nothing past that.

As far as the new style, I'm all in favor of it.  I like change, and this is definitely a change from the old orange/brown color scheme they've sported since the beginning.  I'm a big fan of their methods of going about making it more user-friendly (100 papercuts initiative was thought up from a genius!).  I have yet to try PiTiVi, but it is long past due to have a good video editor that is open source.  We'll have to see how that goes.

Overall, not a whole lot of new features as one would expect with their track record, as they really fought for stability and core improvements on this release as opposed to new features.  Overall, glad see the cat got let out of the bag (pun intended).