So, not too long ago, I upgraded from Ubuntu 09.10 to 10.04 – and I’m glad I did.

Quick Overview

From the very start, 10.04 looked sleeker, worked faster, and the basic pack­age installed sev­eral use­ful appli­ca­tions to make the user expe­ri­ence excit­ing. Lucid Lynx (10.04) improved sev­eral fea­tures from Jaunty Jack­a­lope (09.10) – the soft­ware cen­ter is sim­pler, it installed the upgraded ver­sion of OpenOf­fice, and over­all the sys­tem seems more balanced.

Improv­ing 10.04

As you may have read in a pre­vi­ous post I was unsuc­cess­ful in get­ting Adobe Cre­ative Suite 3 to install via WINE or CROSSOVER (CS4 wouldn’t install either). So, at the rec­om­men­da­tion of a friend I installed VMware Work­sta­tion 6.5… I was pretty impressed. It installed Win­dows XP PRO SP3 with­out a sin­gle hic­cup, it val­i­dated with Microsoft, updated just fine… I installed Adobe Cre­ative Suite 4 with­out any trou­ble and it also val­i­dated just fine…