Ubuntu 6.10 “Edgy Eft” Released
The latest version of Ubuntu was just released yesterday, and it does not disappoint. The most noticeable changes are to the artwork. This is the best looking Ubuntu release to date, and one of the most consistently themed desktop Linux distribution available.
One of the most significant changes was made under the hood. “init.d” has been replaced by “Upstart” which cuts the normal boot up time in half.
The major changes include:
- GNOME 2.16
- TomBoy
- F-Spot
- Evolution 2.8.0
- Firefox 2.0 (just released October 24th)
- Open Office 2.0.4
- Gaim 2.0 Beta 3.1
- Orca
- A new theme
- Rounded window borders
- Upstart
And with the release of Edgy Eft we also get a new version of Automatix, which is much more refined. I have been running the release canidate for Edgy for a couple of weeks now, and my laptop has been running much smoother than it was before with Dapper.
If you want to upgrade your existing Dapper Drake (6.06) install, you can do so by entering the following command in a terminal window:
sudo update-manager -c
All the packages will be downloaded and installed on your machine. Make sure that you have a fast connection or you could be waiting a while.
So far everything on my Toshiba Satellite Pro A100 works (with the exceptions of the FnFx keys), originally 6.06, upgraded to 6.10 with the command above. My workstation also works great, and it was installed from scratch with the release cd.
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