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I’m eagerly awaiting the new Ubuntu release 10.04; I can then upgrade my recently installed 9.10 ‘Karmic Koala’ to an LTS* version which should see me through the next couple of years. I certainly like the new ‘darker’ theme that comes with it, far more appealing than the current & previous ‘brown’ theme.

But from all reports the following version 10.10 ‘Maverick Meerkat’ is going to be a ‘Windows’ breaker, and will be using the new Gnome 3 desktop environment which unfortunately wasn’t available in time for inclusion in 10.04 ‘Lucid Lynx’ (which uses the latest version of Gnome 2); and if 10.10 ‘Maverick’ is as ground breaking as it is intended to be, then I may upgrade to that when it’s released in October this year … I’ll wait n see on that though.

*LTS = Long Term Support – these releases use more stable versions of  applications, and are released every 2 years (in April) with support for 3 years on Desktop PCs, and 5 years on Servers. Other versions are released every 6 months (in April & October) with 18 months support, but use more ‘bleeding edge’ applications etc -  see here for more info.