Ubuntu 10.04
May 28, 2010
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Long Term Support) is out. This is a very polished operating system. The Computing America radio show which invites Larry Bushey (I believe) every 3rd Tuesday of the month to the show has dubbed Ubuntu 10.04 as Linux OS 10. Sound familiar? How about MAC OS 10 or Roman Numeral X. I agree and disagree with his statements. It is a well polished and very stable OS. But is it locked down by the firm clutch of Steve Jobs? No! Aside from the Window control buttons being moved to the left side of the screen there really aren’t any drastic changes. The only package to which I felt that Canonical should have kept in Ubuntu 10.04 was GIMP. However I understand why they did not. GIMP is a highly complex photo editing package and isn’t meant for the standard user. This is where F-Spot comes into play. F-Spot though in my opinion is far to simplistic. Which may be the reason why many are stating that it could be possible that Ubuntu 10.10 could move to Shotwell. But is Shotwell ready for the prime time? Fedora 13 has included it. Fedora is known to many Linux users to be an upstream Linux distro. This means it is a little less stable but contains bleeding edge applications. So only time will tell if Shotwell is ready for 10.10. Canonical, we trust in you to make the correct choice regarding this package. For now upgrade to 10.04 LTS using the same steps to which I made mention of in my earlier blog post “Upgrading Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10″.
