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Ubuntu 10.10 Cozies Up to Android, iPhone and the Cloud

Ubuntu 10.10 Cozies Up to Android, iPhone and the Cloud
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Jason Brooks
Jason Brooks
Oct 13, 2010
2 minute read
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Ubuntu 10.10 Cozies Up to Android, iPhone and the Cloud

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by Jason Brooks


‘Unity’ Netbook Interface

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Ubuntu 10.10 sports a new interface for its netbook-oriented edition, with a focus on making the most of displays with vertically challenged resolutions.


Netbook Edition of Evolution

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Ubuntu’s default e-mail application, Evolution, now comes in a slimmer edition for netbook displays as well.


Firefox Could Use a Trim

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It’d be good to see a netbook-friendly version of Firefox in the future—the bookmarks toolbar, for one, strikes me as a waste of space.


Ubuntu One on Android

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Canonical’s Ubuntu One service offers a few points of integration with Android—it’s possible to sync contacts to the device, as well as to stream music stored on the service.


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Ubuntu One on iOS

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The personal cloud service offers similar integration with Apple iOS devices, but as of press time, the client app was still waiting in Apple’s App Store approval queue. I was able to test the iOS contacts sync app, however.


New Font

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The Maverick Meerkat release marks the debut of a new Ubuntu font—the addition seems like a rather minor enhancement, but I find myself growing attached to this new font.


Software Center

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Ubuntu 10.10 comes with a spruced-up Software Center, which serves as an App Store for the thousands of great, free apps that have long been available for Ubuntu, while also adding a framework for purchasing apps.


More Software Center

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Ubuntu and Debian packages have long offered up suggestions for complementary add-on packages, but the Software Center version in 10.10 is the first to expose these suggestions to users.

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