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4 Cool New Features in Ubuntu Lucid Lynx Alpha 3

by Jim on 27. Feb, 2010 in Facebook, Social Media, Twitter, Ubuntu, lucid


iPhone & iPod Touch Support

Just last week, I was complaining about Ubuntu’s lack of built-in 
support for iPhones and newer iPods. Personally, I think this 
functionality is important if Ubuntu wants to grow in the consumer 
market. With the release of Lucid Alpha 3, I saw a couple of reports 
saying that iPhone and iPod Touch support was included out of the box. 
So, I plugged in my iPod Touch and was amazed to see it not only show up 
on my desktop, but also working inside Rhythmbox!

Rhythmbox now allows you to drag and drop music to and from your iPhone 
or iPod Touch. Now, the only time you would need iTunes is to do a 
firmware upgrade on your iPhone or iPod Touch.  So, how long will it be 
before Apple moves to block Rhythmbox with an update?


Gwibber and the MeMenu

Ubuntu 10.04 brings social networking to the default desktop with 
Gwibber and the new MeMenu. This is part of Canonical’s “Social By 
Default” initiative for Lucid. Gwibber allows you to connect to multiple 
social networking sites and  interact with them in a unified window 
within Ubuntu. Gwibber currently supports Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, 
Digg, Status.net, Identi.ca, Qaiku, and FriendFeed. The MeMenu takes 
things even further, giving you an overview of all your social networks 
and chat accounts, even allowing you to set your status and post to your 
social networks right from the top panel.

There is still quite a bit of work to do on the MeMenu if it’s going to 
meet the blueprints that have been made for it, but it’s coming along 
nicely. Gwibber also seems to be quite buggy, but a quick look at 
Launchpad shows that the developers are busy fixing bugs and adding 
features.  When 10.04 final hits the net in April, I think the “Social 
By Default” initiative will prove to be a huge success.


Facebook Chat

It’s only been two weeks since Facebook announced support for the 
XMPP/Jabber protocol, and Facebook chat support is already supported in 
Lucid Alpha 3. Empathy now includes Facebook chat along with the 
multitude of other chat protocols that it supports. With support for 
Facebook chat in Empathy and Facebook updates in Gwibber, you can now 
keep in touch with your Facebook contacts without ever visiting the site.


Improved Sound Controls

One thing that has really bugged me about the last two releases of 
Ubuntu is Pulse Audio. Ever since Ubuntu switched to Pulse Audio, I’ve 
had nothing but trouble with sound. Things seem a bit better in 9.10, 
but to get good control over sound you have to install the Pulse Audio 
Volume Control. Lucid Alpha 3 includes a new sound preference panel 
that’s available by default and right from the sound widget in the top 
panel.

This sound preferences panel is a unified place for controlling 
everything sound related in Ubuntu. You can set your sound theme, 
configure your sound hardware, choose and configure input and output 
devices, and also see and control how individual programs are 
interacting with your sound devices. This is especially useful for 
configuring applications like Skype.


Conclusion

Ubuntu 10.04 is shaping up to be a fine release. Alpha 3 is pretty 
stable and brings some great new features with it. There are still more 
features to come, such as the Ubuntu One Music Store and possibly a new 
theme. I look forward to tracking Lucid’s progress and installing it on 
all of my workstations when it is released in April.



5 Responses to “4 Cool New Features in Ubuntu Lucid Lynx Alpha 3”

    1. wolfen69 28. Feb, 2010 at 1:58 am #

       I thought the inclusion of Simple Scan is genius. A very simple 
but good scanning app. Kudos to the devs. Lucid should be a great release.

            Jim 28. Feb, 2010 at 6:25 pm #

             Thanks for the tip! Simple Scan is really nice indeed. I 
even decided to write a little post about it.
 
http://www.starryhope.com/linux/ubuntu/2010/ubuntu-lucid-makes-scanning-simple/


    2. Ciborium 28. Feb, 2010 at 7:27 am #

       “Rhythmbox now allows you to drag and drop music to and from your 
iPhone or iPod Touch. Now, the only time you would need iTunes is to do 
a firmware upgrade on your iPhone or iPod Touch. So, how long will it be 
before Apple moves to block Rhythmbox with an update?”

       In that case you don’t need iTunes, because you don’t want to 
upgrade your firmware, or you might break compatibility. It’s kind of 
like updating BIOS. Don’t do it unless something is broken!


    3.Johannes 28. Feb, 2010 at 6:10 pm #

       Seems that the sound controls were aready there in 9.10.
       Anyway, thanks for the review :-)

             Jim 28. Feb, 2010 at 6:23 pm #

             Johannes,
             Seems you are right – they were just a bit harder to find. 
At any rate, the new system looks great and I hope that Pulse Audio will 
be more stable this time around.


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