Yes, Open Office is back in UNE 10.04 (Ubuntu Netbook Edition). A lot of drama has been happening around surrounding the exclusion of Open Office in UNE 10.04 . Rick Spencer, the guy behind UNE had initially decided to exclude Open Office from UNE 10.04. And surprisingly enough there was virtually no discussion about the features [...]

The first alpha of Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx is now available for testing. This will will be followed by two more alphas, two betas and an RC before the final release in April 2010. You can see the complete released schedule here. This release is meant purely for testing and not for production use.
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Usplash which was used in Ubuntu 9.04 was replaced by Xsplash in Ubuntu 9.10 to provide a faster boot. Now, the Ubuntu team is replacing Xsplash with Plymouth.
Plymouth is already in use Fedora. The reason for switching to plymouth is because xsplash was not able to provide a flicker free experience as expected.
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The release schedule for Ubuntu 10.04 has been confirmed.  The first beta is set to come out in March 2010 and the final release is to be released on 29th April 2010. Given below is the detailed release schedule. For the artistically inclined, the picture shown above sums up the entire timeline very nicely.
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GNOME 3 is the much talked about next generation GNOME that was supposed to come in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx.

We all knew that Ubuntu 10.04 was going to be code named with a two lettered word both starting with L, and the first an adjective and the second word name of an animal. Who would have guessed it, the next version after 9.10 i.e Ubuntu 10.04 is going to be called Lucid Lynx. It [...]