Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Alpha 3 Brings Nouveau and Thunderbird 3

Posted by hanuca on Feb 26, 2010 8:26 AM EDT
Softpedia; By Marius Nestor
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For this release, Nouveau has been assigned as the default video driver for Nvidia graphics cards, instead of the old nv one, and the popular Mozilla Thunderbird 3 e-mail and rss/news client has been included in the default software repository, replacing the old 2.x release.

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Alpha 3 is powered by the GNOME 2.30 Beta 1 (2.29.91) desktop environment and the kernel packages have been updated to version 2.6.32-14.20, based on Linux kernel 2.6.32.8.

The Indicator Applet Session received major features, and the volume applet has been redesigned a little bit. Looks like Ubuntu is getting ready for social networking activities, and it has built in support for Facebook, Twitter, identi.ca and many other similar services. The Gwibber microblogging client has been also added to complement the aforementioned social networking services. Take a look at the screenshots below to see the new features...

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