Ubuntu 10.10 Beta 1 is out

Sometime yesterday, Canonical released Ubuntu 10.10 Beta 1, the first beta of the Maverick Meerkat release.

There are some improvements (UI wise), and a bunch of bug fixes.

A list of changes would include:

* Change from F-Spot to Shotwell

* The Sound Indicator has been enhanced to include music player controls.

* The software center has been updated, including new UI and Purchases

* And tighter Ubuntu One integration.

* And the Light themes have polished more.

* ‘Faster’ GNOME Evolution E-Mail Client

* Gwibber is now ready for Twitter’s ‘OAuth-calypse’

To my knowledge, Maverick will NOT have the new Ubuntu font included in this release.

The netbook edition has been the focal point of 10.10 with a brand new ‘launcher’ named “Unity” and, “Global Menu Bar”

My 10.10 Desktop: (Click for bigger preview)

NOTE: Google Chrome does not come pre-installed – Sorry!

I think Ubuntu 10.10 shoud have been the LTS, not 10.04. The GUI enhancements are amazing! They basically revamped the Light themes! They look a lot better than in 10.04.

Where to download? Here!

Happy Ubuntu-ing

Cory Claxon

@CoryClaxon on twitter!

Ubuntu 11.04 Named!

With Ubuntu 10.10 on its way to being “[more]Social from the start” will bring a plethora of new features and UI enhancements! And Conical named: Maverick Meerkat!

A UI & Feature freeze will soon fall into place with Ubuntu,

brining 11.04 with no new major features of updates – mainly bug fixes.

And Ubuntu 11.04 was name ‘Natty Narwhal‘, and no I’m not joking.

Just for a quick update…

Cory Claxon

@CoryClaxon on twitter – follow me there!

Till next time, have a good one!

First Week of High School

It’s stressful, especially PE and all. And when you have to run around the building 50 times to find your class (:P). I’m finally starting to get the hang of how to effeciently travel between class’.

More to come later!

This was a short to post to begin with, I wanted to add a post to my site

Flash on iPhone/iPad/iPod touch

As I went through my Facebook stream I say that Dylan Parrin on DylanParrin.com had made a blog post on Flash on the iPhone/iDevice.

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IPv4 Address’ are running out!

You maybe asking yourself “What is IPv4?” and “What are IP address?”

IP address are assigned to you by your ISP (internet service provider), which you usually get through you phone or through TV company.

Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) is the fourth revision in the development of the Internet Protocol (IP) and it is the first version of the protocol to be widely deployed. Together with IPv6, it is at the core of standards-based internetworking methods of theInternet. IPv4 is still by far the most widely deployed Internet Layer protocol. As of 2010, IPv6 deployment is still in its infancy.
-Wikipedia

Since IPv4 went online almost 30 years ago, the internet has been crowded with new websites and people connecting to the internet. Everyone who connects to the internet get an IP address, no matter what OS or brand you use. Now that’s it’s been nearly 30 years since IPv4 went on line people have went online in huge numbers, which has now lead to a scarce amount of IPv4 IP address, and after we run out of those we will be forced to switch to IPv6 which has not been widely adopted thus far, but if studies prove right we will be out of IPv4 address by June 2011, next summer. At that time everyone will be forced to switch to IPv6 is they choose to stay online. It is expensive to developer software hardware to adopt the new internet protocol, but we will switch. Now, what happens after we run out of IPv6 address, well I do not know, but we will most likely move on to another internet protocol, IPv7? maybe! But until this it’s gonna be a long time until we reach that limit again, and by then we could have scraped the totoal idea of internet protocol. The fact of this post was and is they we are short of conventional IP address.

~Cory Claxon

@CoryClaxon on twitter