Ubuntu 10.10 Alpha 1 Maverick Meerkat you won’t  notice a big difference between it and 10.04 LTS, fixed many bugs check bug tracking on launchpad for more information.

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Main Enhancement On Ubuntu 10.10 Alpha 1

• check the Blueprints for Maverick to know fixed bugs and upgraded packages for Maverick
• upgraded to gnome 2.31 and for Kubuntu KDE upgraded to version 4.5 beta 1
• Kernel version 2.6.34-5.12 based on Kernel 2.6.34

check the release announcement and release Notes

Download Ubuntu 10.10 Alpha 1

Testing Environment using Vbox with these Hardware specification:

• Single core processor 2.1 Ghz
• 384 MB of RAM
• 12 MB of video memory

First impression

Same looking as Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, quick booting time, same installed default themes, and backgrounds, but many applications upgraded to last release.

Ubuntu 10.10 Alpha 1 screenshots

Overall about Ubuntu 10.10 Alpha 1

still quite early for this release to notice changes between it and older version 10.04 LTS. but it’s working really good i didn’t got any problem with at all so far.

Waiting for Alpha 2 according to schedule will be released July 1st, That’s it for now.