Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) Release Candidate

“The first and only Release Candidate for Ubuntu 10.10, aka
Maverick Meerkat, was released yesterday. The final release will
come out in only 10 days – Ubuntu has decided to make a Sunday
release, to take advantage of the 10/10/10 date, rather than their
usual Thursday release schedule. As such, this Release Candidate is
expected to be a lot getter than most; the release announcement
describes it as complete, stable, and suitable for testing by any
user.

“The installer has been overhauled for this release, with the
biggest change being that it does an “asynchronous” installation.
After asking just enough questions to determine the language,
keyboard and disk layout, it actually starts copying the
distribution to disk while at the same time continuing the dialog
to get the timezone, user name and password, and the like. Nice
idea.”

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