Goodbye Ubuntu 10.10

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Kate Stewart announced on the International Women's Day that thr Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) operating system reaches EOL (End of Life) on April 10th, 2012. Ubuntu 10.10 was released 18 months ago, on October 10th, 2010 and it brought features like GNOME 2.32, Linux kernel 2.6.35.3, Nouveau video driver, a totally revamped installer, the Ubuntu font, Ubuntu One for Android and iPhone, OneConf, revamped Ubuntu Software Center, and much more. Unfortunately, on April 10th, 2012, Canonical will stop supporting the Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) operating system. "The supported upgrade path from Ubuntu 10.10 is via Ubuntu 11.04. Instructions and caveats for the upgrade may be found at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NattyUpgrades." - said Kate Stewart in the announcement. Existing Ubuntu 10.10 users are urged to upgrade as soon as possible to Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal), and then to a newer version, such as Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot).
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Comment #1 by: luke on 11 Mar 2012, 07:01 UTC	reply to this comment
Your Ubuntu servay does NOT work.

Comment #2 by: vinod on 11 Mar 2012, 10:23 UTC	reply to this comment
One of the last Gnome 2 ubuntu best Version.... end of road for gnome 2

Comment #3 by: Sloepie on 11 Mar 2012, 23:30 UTC

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Yeah sure, the end of life of maverick also means the end of Ubuntu for me, after being a faithfull Ubuntu user for 6 years.

I hate Unity, and a little bit less Gnome 3. I really can not work with a tablet/phone interface on a desktop. So I will switch to Mint 11 or 12 and start using Mate and/or Cinnamon as Mint seems to understand much better than Ubuntu and Gnome how a user friendly user interface should work.

Bye bye Ubuntu, welcome Linux Mint

Comment #3.1 by: Linux on 13 Mar 2012, 06:06 GMT

+1

Linux mint Debian edition with Xfce

Is what i changed to about 6 months ago now.. its great.. and its a rolling release.

I think all this tablet Kind of GUI all are going now is insane. windows 8 and ubuntu get a grip.
Some people like using a mouse and keyboard...

Comment #4 by: Brendan William on 15 Mar 2012, 03:52 UTC	reply to this comment
I think they should extend it longer. It was a great release and many people still use it.

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