Ubuntu 10.10 to be released on 10/10/10

Ironically I started the 32bit download ahead of the 64bit and the 64bit finished minutes ago while the 32bit is presently at 51%. That shows how busy their download servers are at the present time and why for some the downloads are sssslowwwwwwwwww...... busy, busy, busy is the word on that.

(nowhere near as bogged down as the MS servers were last year however! )

Gee I couldn't forget to include an image of how the 64bit 10.10 desktop looks could i? I grabbed several screens and have the 32bit going on a VM as well.

Having a sucky connection is the pits! I've been trying to DL 10.10 since yesterday morning without luck. I'm now on my 4th attempt. The last attempt got to 44% before it died. My current DL is screaming along at a whopping 5KBs!

strollin said:

My current DL is screaming along at a whopping 5KBs!

I had to read that three times and then laughed really hard.

So far, I'm incredibly pleased with the OS. It seems very smooth, very friendly.

Ubuntu is awesome. I always download new versions as soon as they are released. I have both my desktops and my laptop dual booted on Windows and Ubuntu.

For those of you who want to wait for Linux Mint to come out to make your multimedia easier to get working, I'll save you wait and give you the exact commands for Ubuntu 10.10 to playback your music files and videos.

I will provide all of these commands from the terminal window as I think it's easier to setup a box from the terminal, because you can simply cut and paste what I provide here and it will work every single time.

Adding Multimedia into Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

Adding the VLC movie Player
sudo apt-get install vlc vlc-nox vlc-data
sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh


Yes, that's all there is to it. It's really that easy. You should now be able to play MP3's, encrypted DVD's, watch YouTube Videos, java, flash, have microsoft true type fonts, etc.

The 32bit took the longest here when going both flavors of 10.10 and the latest Puppy 5.1.1 now seen for use on flash drives. I even saw a 4th download of GParted Live while I was at it. When booting live from cd the latest automatic start X seems to be a problem seeing the desktop for either of them flash onscreen for so many seconds and then nothing.

For seeing the 3 installed on VMs that went smooth as always while the auto config couldn't adjust to the dual monitor set up here. I would likely need to unplug one in order to have a steady display. I found that one odd but saw it with the Puppy 5.0.1 release as well on cd.

I used an older GParted release to prep the flash drive and saw the 32bit 10.10 installed while booted in Windows. Puppy Linux on the other hand doesn't see the install in Windows option for that distro however being the preferred for making up recovery sticks.

Mint 10 will simply be looked at having Mint 9 already on VBox already. When finishing up the install of both flavors of ubuntu the desktop was the same as you will find seeing that same background. If you download both you won't want to get confused by that.

I don't install any distro to replace 7 here! That would be unthinkable!

The problem for seeing it installed onto a flash drive is easily solved with the 32bit flavor and using the wubi install in Windows option. The few screens here show which options except the popup that appears for selecting the mount point being the root partition on a flash drive since these were grabbed during the VBox install using the manual partition selection.

The problems seen here were when booting live with both flavors of 10.01, the latest Puppy 5.1.1, and the latest GParted live all on live cds apparently all using a newer version of the start X for the auto display. The 32bit 10.10 was the only one to finally work when installed on a flash drive and booted live from that while other attempts like writing the isos directly to a flash drive saw the quick flash of desktop for a few seconds and then nothing.

As far as the pendrivelinux tool that usually works well once you get familiar with it. unetbootin is another good one there however.

I have given up trying Ubuntu after the downloads became very slow, even wubi has become very painfully slow download. I had no problem downloading 7.10,8.04 and 8.10, I like playing with Compiz feature and might try 10.10.