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Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 LTS Beta1

By jperlow March 24, 2010, 12:50 PM PDT

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Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 LTS Beta1

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx LTS Beta1 Desktop Menu 1

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx LTS Beta1 Desktop Menu 1

The new color scheme for Lucid Lynx is a drastic departure from previous Ubuntu releases which used earth-tone colors.

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Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 LTS Beta1

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx LTS Beta1 Desktop Menu 2

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx LTS Beta1 Desktop Menu 2

As with the previous release Lucid Lynx is an incremental improvement in terms of overall usability but many of the most significant enhancements are under the hood.

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Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 LTS Beta1

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx LTS Beta1 Desktop Menu 3

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx LTS Beta1 Desktop Menu 3

The Ubuntu menu structure has effectively remained the same.

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Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 LTS Beta1

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx LTS Beta1 Places Menu

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx LTS Beta1 Places Menu

The navigational elements are the same as the previous release.

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Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 LTS Beta1

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx LTS Beta1 Software Center 1

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx LTS Beta1 Software Center 1

The Software Center has gotten a minor aesthetic face-lift.

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Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 LTS Beta1

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx LTS Beta1 Software Center 2

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx LTS Beta1 Software Center 2

Software from the Ubuntu archives is easy to search for and installs with a click of a button.

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Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 LTS Beta1

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx LTS Beta1 Firefox 3.6

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx LTS Beta1 Firefox 3.6

Firefox 3.6 in Lucid Lynx uses Yahoo! as the default home page and search engine, but it can easily be changed to Google or any number of other search engines.

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Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 LTS Beta1

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx LTS Nautilus File Manager

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx LTS Nautilus File Manager

The file manager, Nautilus, is mostly unchanged from the previous version.

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Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 LTS Beta1

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx LTS Web Browsing

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx LTS Web Browsing

Web browsing under Ubuntu is a pleasure, and supports Flash 10 provided it is installed from the Software Center.

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Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 LTS Beta1

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx LTS OpenOffice.org 3.2 Spreadsheet

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx LTS OpenOffice.org 3.2 Spreadsheet

OpenOffice 3.2 is provided as the default productivity suite. Shown here is the Spreadsheet application.

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Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 LTS Beta1

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx LTS Beta1 OpenOffice.org 3.2 Write

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx LTS Beta1 OpenOffice.org 3.2 Write

This is the OpenOffice.org 3.2 word processing application, showed side-by-side with Google Docs.

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Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 LTS Beta1

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx LTS Beta1 Social Media Tools

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx LTS Beta1 Social Media Tools

The Empathy Instant Messenger Client now supports FaceBook chat, and the Gwibber Microblogging client is also included, which supports a number of social networks including Twitter and FaceBook.

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