Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx … moving away from brown
In continuation of my testdrive of the upcoming release of Ubuntu yesterday’s and today’s updates showed a new look for Ubuntu. Since I am using Ubuntu it always has had a brownish theme, but no longer is this the case for the new release.
After yesterday’s updates a new background appeared, but still it had the brownish splash screen when logging in and a brownish theme. That changed after I performed today’s updates. The new background is purplish and the theme greyish.
Although the brown color was familiar I think indeed it was time for a change and personally I like the new color palette that has been chosen.
In my previous post I also mentioned MeMenu and that I had not found it yet. Well … I think I found it. Now all I have to do is figure out if it works yet and if so … how. ;)
What I have found is that I can add Chat (Epiphany) and Broadcast (Gwibber) Accounts, the next step is finding out how to get it operational.
So … a minor update on the testdrive but surely more info will follow when we are moving closer to the release date and I will get more insight on the changes in this new release.
Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, Alpha 3 … a test drive
Yesterday I read about the Alpha 3 release for the new Ubuntu 10.04 release, named Lucid Lynx, being available. The Ubuntu wiki provides quite some information about the new features of this release. Since it has been a while that I have “played” with a new Linux release I decided to give it a go. This blog post describes my initial findings.
Installation of this release is, just like with earlier releases, pretty straight forward and well guided. Although I was provided with the option to have this release installed “side by side” with the main distribution on my PC, being Karmic Koala, I decided not to do this. Mainly because I am not sure what the consequences of this option is.
So decided to go for a manual selection and installed the release on a spare partition for which I decided to use the ext4 file system. Additionally I opted to NOT install grub and just use an “update-grub” to have this release added to the grub that was installed with Karmic Koala.
Personally I thought that the final 6% of the installation process took quite some time in which the installation process was mainly “running dpkg”. However, maybe the cause for this lays in the fact that I only have 512Mb of memory in my PC.
Once installed I rebooted into the “recovery mode” of Karmic, updated grub and rebooted again after which Lucid Lynx started without any issues. Shows promising.
At a first glance there is very little difference with Karmic Koala. I opened a terminal and ran, one after another,
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
sudo apt-get autoclean
Which resulted in the update of 123 packages, not too shocking in my opinion.
Another thing I noticed is the fact that now by default the Yahoo search engine is used instead of Google. Since I am quite accustomed to Google I decided to change back which is very easy to do. In the small search box in the right, use the pull down button to select Google. Now when the start page is refreshed it will use Google instead of Yahoo.
The other things I have done up to now are installing the “msttcorefonts” since I like to have Trebuchet MS as my desktop font, and install the Chromium browser. This can be done as described in my blog post Chromium Dev Built on Ubuntu Intrepid. The only difference is that instead of “intrepid” the word “lucid” is to be used in the lines that are to be added to the sources.list file.
Conclusion so far: Installation is straight forward and easy and it runs solid until now.
When time permits I will keep you all posted on the further developments. One thing I am looking forward to and that I have not (yet) found in the current test release is MeMenu, which should you allow to broadcast to various social networks.
Clustrmap
Google Analytics
99Today's
VisitorsPowered By
Follow me
