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Test drive: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" Beta On the EEEPC 900

Thursday, September 15th, 2011

Ubuntu’s update season is coming again, with it’s usual load of discussing (especially about the famous “disappearing” menus). As every season I started my tour of live version testing with the hope this new release will mature enough to convince me to leave the old 10.04 (LTS) I still have on my EEEPC. So I downloaded the new Ubuntu disk image and prepared a bootable USB drive using, as usual, the tool Ubuntu itself provide.

 

First impressions

 

Here is how Ubuntu 11.10 looks like

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