And The Oscar Goes To Ubuntu Lucid Lynx

The upcoming version of Ubuntu, named Lucid Lynx, or 10.04, packs all the punches needed to knock out any Windows from your PC. Mark Shuttleworth personally took the challenge of polishing Ubuntu to an extent that even Mac users feel envy. He is heading in the right direction. Lucid Lynx is till date the most polished, sophisticated, resource efficient, and user-friendly operating system ever built. 

We downloaded a daily build from here (these are unstable builds, test at your own risk) and then created a USB Starter Disk on my Canon camera's memory stick. The entire operating system took only 814 MB on the USB drive; compare it with massive 15GB which Windows Vista or 7 needs. The system booted up within 50 seconds from the USB drive, thus making it one of the fastest booting GnuLinux systems.

What I would appreciate even more is that you can enjoy all those 3D effects without any extra -- hardware, performance -- cost. Here is the photo feature of Ubuntu Lucid Lynx. The OS will be released on April 29, 2010. This time, it seems, its worth waiting.

Start folding your windows undies, its time for pack-up.

NOTE: Right click and 'View Image' to see high resolution images.

Your first interaction with Lucid. Here it asks if you want to install or run LiveCD.
 

Greeted by the new Ubuntu look and feel. Brown and yellow are gone, black is in.
 

A glimpse of Administration menu.
 

Cool looking Empathy as default chat programme.
 

Native iPhone (all models) and iPod support. WOW.
 

Supports Gwibber Social networking Client.
 

Synaptic at work.
 

Ubuntu One, your online Hard Drive. Forget Google and Microsoft.
 

The entire OS on my Canon USB Stick.
 

Yahoo! as default search engine. But no worries, one click will make Google your default.