10.04 awesomeness

Hehehe “awesomeness” is a word I have to use less often its starting to lose its punch. Put simply Ubuntu 10.04 is the best release ive used of Ubuntu. When I was at the UDS I was thinking that its all about stability so there wouldnt be much surprises I was very very wrong.

With the new look of the desktop I think we can compete on every level with our rivals. The one thing that people always commented on when I showed them the desktop was the colour and both of the new colours are a lot better than the brown. I dont really care about what side the buttons are on I just love the new look.

Gbrainy and Gwibber are both welcome additions to the desktop and I love both. Gbrainy actually surprised me for such a young program how stable and cool it is. Gwibber’s new interface is a hell of a lot better than previous releases and the Me Menu makes it easy to post updates on the fly. F-Spot got a nice viewer mode and a nice little editor too which is very nice.

I dont have a clue about the server, cloud and netbook side of things (because I dont have any of them but if anyone wants to donate some machines to me id be grateful, specifically a netbook because I would love one id do a nice review if you want too ) but im sure they are rocking.

This is my first release that I went the UDS and got to know all the people who make Ubuntu awesome. It was nice chatting with people about what they are doing and learning a lot. I cant go to the next UDS because of college but ill more than likely go to the 11.04 and rock that. My focus for the next Ubuntu release is going to be less QA and more desktop and quickly work since ill have lots and lots of dev time.

What im most looking forward to (and both may seem boring to some people) is the new font coming because the fonts are bad currently and Zeitgeist being integrated into the desktop because its full of awesomeness (damn I used it again bad Shane).

So anyway go download Lucid (if you havent already )