Canonical Releases Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha Three !

As expected, Canonical has released a 3rd alpha for Ubuntu 11.04, code named "Natty Narwhal". This evolution milestone is the lastly of 3 planned alpha releases, which volition live followed yesteryear 2 betas – every mo previously previously reported, in that location volition live no loose candidate for Ubuntu 11.04.

Natty Narwhal Alpha 3 is based on the 2.6.38-rc2 Linux marrow together with features indicator improvements, likewise a novel facial expression for the Unity Dash together with a resize function. Ubuntu 11.04 sees Unity, every mo the distribution's novel default desktop developed in-house yesteryear the Ubuntu developers, replacing the GNOME Shell and, every mo previously announced, the replacement of Oracle's opened upwards origin OpenOffice.org business office suite amongst the LibreOffice community fork.

Package updates inward the evolution preview include version 3.3.1 of LibreOffice, Firefox 4.0 Beta 12, version 2.13 of the Transmission BitTorrent customer together with Upstart 0.9.0 – version 1.0 of Upstart was released on 2 March. Other changes include updates to the Ubuntu installer, which directly allows users to upgrade their existing Ubuntu installation to the novel version, improved iPhone back upwards together with a novel Ubuntu One Control Panel.

As amongst all pre-releases, utilization inward production environments together with on mission critical systems is non advised. Users testing the loose are encouraged to supply feedback together with written report whatever bugs that they encounter.
Further data close the 3rd alpha tin plough over the axe live flora inward the loose notes. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 listing of planned features together with changes for version 11.04 of Ubuntu is available on the Blueprints for Natty page. Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha 3 is available to download from the project's spider web site. Users currently running Ubuntu 10.10 on a desktop organisation tin plough over the axe upgrade yesteryear pressing Alt+F2 together with typing "update-manager -d" (without the quotes) into the ascendance box.
The concluding version of Natty Narwhal is expected to brand it on 28 Apr 2011. The latest stable loose is version 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat", piece the electrical current Long Term Support (LTS) version is Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS "Lucid Lynx".

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