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Canonical's short March towards multi touch success (or its slow slide of oblivion) is a step closer to completion. On Thursday, it released the Ubuntu 11.04 beta.
Natty codename narwhal, Ubuntu 11.04 is the first version of the Linux distribution, which by default was once told to entity, the multi touch interface for touch-only devices.
The change is as canonical combines desktop and NetBook versions of Ubuntu instead.
Announcement of change in interfaces this year, Ubuntu creator Mark Shuttleworth had the GNOME said shell in the same direction as Ubuntu wasn't heading. The sticking point graphics and 3D was using GL, he said.
Unit is a massive undertaking for the distribution, not only because it has spent six years on Gnome, but because it also fundamentally altered the look of Ubuntu and how to install applications and users are available.
Unit sets program icons on the side of the screen, and it has keyboard navigation, and Launcher activation via keyboard shortcuts.
Unit could be, the production or the breaking of Ubuntu, to position it as a user-friendly Linux for a future with touch based systems, or it could frustrate and losing already using it.
Elsewhere, Ubuntu 11.04 tries to bring downloads, app-store-like user reviews and reviews on the Web to the desktop with a software Center for application.
THR distribution contains Firefox 4.0 as the default browser, LibreOffice 3.3.2 and Banshee 1 as the default music player.
On the server side, like Amazon eucalyptus 2.0.2 Jostles for rooms with OpenStack in the universe is a technology preview, with the last snapshot of the 2011.2 version code-named cactus. Shuttleworth made it eucalyptus or OpenStack sounds like Ubuntu in the future as his blessed architecture for private clouds building will be picking.
"In the cloud, we need to tighten up and some firm decisions on the platforms we support for 12.04 LTS," he said in announcing Ubuntu 11.10 - the successor of Ubuntu 11.04 - in March enigmatic. ®
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