Ubuntu Learns New Tricks, Forgets Some Old Ones With Lucid Lynx Upgrade

“Lucid Lynx, Canonical’s latest desktop release of Ubuntu
(10.04), sports a new look and feel designed to attract new users,
both in business and at home.

“No doubt the launch of a music store component for the Ubuntu
One cloud service available through the Ubuntu OS will give
consumers a reason to consider one of the most popular Linux
desktops.

“Canonical, the commercial outlet of the community-developed
Ubuntu Linux distro, clearly wants to make migrating to Ubuntu easy
for new users to experience right out of the box. The company has
partnered with several computer makers to preinstall the long-term
support version on a range of computers this summer.

“Existing Ubuntu users who have no interest in the music outlet
or the social networking tools integrating into the desktop still
have good reasons to upgrade to version 10.04. Lots of tinkering
under the hood has produced a reliable and more responsive
distribution.”

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