14 DAY TRIAL // Canonical uploaded and replaced today the default font in the upcoming Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) operating system.
A couple of weeks ago, we've announced that Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) has a beautiful new wallpaper, and yesterday we've announced the Release Candidate of Ubuntu 10.10.
With today's updates, every Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) user will get an amazing new font, called Ubuntu Font Family. As Canonical says, it is a beautiful, clear, libre and open font family.
"The Ubuntu Font Family will include Regular, Bold, Light and Medium weights, with italics. There will be a Monospaced member of the family for terminal applications, as well as a Condensed version for space-critical applications. A total of 13 variants!" - says on its Launchpad page.
Without any further introduction, we'll let you enjoy the default font of the Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) operating system!
Among some of the interesting features that will be present in Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat), we can mention the upcoming GNOME 2.32.0 desktop environment, which brings lots and lots of improvements in many areas, such as Nautilus, Evolution, Empathy, Totem, or Rhythmbox.
Ubuntu 10.10 will feature a revamped installer, support for gestures with multi-touch, a new user interface for the Netbook edition, called Unity.
Ubuntu 10.10 will be powered by Linux kernel 2.6.35. Applications such as Oracle's OpenOffice.org 3.2 office suite, Mozilla's Firefox 3.6 web browser, Transmission 2 torrent downloader, Pidgin 2.7 instant messenger, Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1 e-mail client and The GIMP 2.6.10 image editor (some available only from the default software repositories) will also be present in the final version.
Don't forget to visit our website on Sunday, October 10th, for a news article about the features of the Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) operating system!