UbuntuLucidLynx: the most innovative Ubuntu

UbuntuLucidLynx (Ubuntu10.04) is about six weeks away from its official release. However, the first beta version has been well received, messages from various sources show that Lucid will become one of the most creative Ubuntu versions in the past few years, including the future. Lucid's plan is to become a long-term support version, and its cycle will be to support three years of desktop end and five years of server end. Lucid also pointed out the clear future direction of Ubuntu. Compared to any release in previous years, Luc

Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (Ubuntu 10.04) is six weeks away from its official release. However, the first beta version has been well received, messages from various sources show that Lucid will become one of the most creative Ubuntu versions in the past few years, including the future.

Lucid's plan is to become a long-term support version, and its cycle will be to support three years of desktop end and five years of server end. Lucid also pointed out the clear future direction of Ubuntu. Compared to any release in the past few years, Lucid identifies the instructions of Canonical, Ubuntu will continue its success in basic applications, adapt to the current availability trend, and promote the commercialization process.

After the first test version of Lucid, there will be a second test version and a candidate release version, and then the final version. However, in addition to these official versions, you can download some improved versions that may appear at any time every day. The stability of these versions may be different, but generally speaking, Lucid has been stable since the first alpha version, even though there are some error prompts during boot, of course, the official statement cannot replace the will of the people.

Ubuntu software selection

As early as the early stage of the Lucid development cycle, the Ubuntu development conference announced that GIMP would no longer appear in the default installed software, which caused some controversy, GIMP is widely regarded as an excellent free software. However, Ubuntu has a higher priority on other issues. GIMP not only occupies a large space on CD, but also provides more functions than new users need.

After GIMP is abandoned, Lucid provides users with a simpler OpenOffice.org Draw. There are also similar practices elsewhere. For example, Brassero with the burning function replaces GNOMEBaker with a more complete function, and the audio-visual editing tool PiTiVi replaces the more complex cineleld, simple Scan replaces XSane.

The idea of Lucid is good for novice users, but the problem is whether such basic tools can meet users' needs and whether experienced users will be dissatisfied, obviously, they do not want to replace their favorite applications one by one after installing the system.

Cater to current trends and restore traditional practices

One of the main goals of Lucid is to reduce the Linux Startup time to 10 seconds. In fact, this goal is not so important to experienced users. They have long been proud of how long the computer has not restarted, however, the startup time of new users can prove technical excellence.

One of the main tools to help achieve this goal is Plymouth, which is the first graphic startup process brought by Ubuntu's rival Fedora. However, on my testing machine, Lucid still takes 25 seconds to start, which is about 2/3 of Karmic Koala in the previous Ubuntu version, but there is still a gap between it and its target.

We can also see from Lucid that Ubuntu is responding to the increasing importance of community networks, and community network tools have been directly put on the desktop.

The MeMenu (GNOME Panel applet that identifies the current user) of Lucid can now list your online status: idle, left, busy, invisible, and offline. You can also use MeMenu to open Gwibber to centrally manage, view, and reply to social network accounts, or log on to the online storage service of Ubuntu One.

Driven by availability, Lucid returned to the original source to come up with a new instruction. This is an opinion that has been difficult to appear since it entered the. com era, as if Linux has returned to the era of sale in paper boxes. However, this may be a good idea for Ubuntu, which wants to impact a large number of PC users. The Ubuntu manual is not available in the test version, because only 2/3 has been completed, but the download is already available in PDF format.

There are about 150 pages in the completed manual. As expected, it focuses on GNOME desktop and open-source practices, but more advanced contents such as command line and troubleshooting are not written. The layout of the Manual is exquisite, but the real problem is whether someone will use the manual. Maybe a series of videos may be more practical.