Canonical Marks 10 Years of Ubuntu With Release of 14.10 Utopic Unicorn

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A rather drab affair

Popular Linux distro Ubuntu recently turned 10 and Canonical could think of no better way to celebrate the milestone than with the release of a new version of the operating system. Okay, maybe not. To be honest, Utopic Unicorn (codename) isn’t in any way a celebratory release. On the contrary, it might well be one of the least ambitious Ubuntu releases in recent memory — at least on the desktop front.
Unlike its predecessor 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr), Utopic Unicorn is built on Linux kernel 3.16. Further, there’s a new version of the Mesa graphics library and the latest stable version of GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). Also contained in 14.10 are a number of updated packages like Firefox 33, Thunderbird 33 and LibreOffice 4.3.2.2, etc.
It is clear from the lack of new features in this latest release that bringing the first Ubuntu smartphone to market before the year is out has, for now, become the number one priority for Canonical. The good news on that front is that the company says it is “on track to have Ubuntu phones in the market this year.”
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