Ubuntu 14.10 Beta 2 Released MATE

Ubuntu 14.10 Beta 2 Released MATE

 
available the new Beta 2 of Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Mate Unicorn, news and how to download it.

Ubuntu 14.10 MATE

At this time he joined Utopic Unicorn Ubuntu 10.14 Beta 2 version under development for future release intermediary that includes all of the news that we will find in October in the stable version. In addition to the official version of Ubuntu have also been released including the ISO of Ubuntu derived MATE 14:10 Utopic Unicorn Beta 2 of the new and highly anticipated distribution. In addition to various upgrades (such as Firefox 32) in Ubuntu 14.10 Beta 2 Mate are also several new features starting from the layout with a single panel located on the bottom of the desktop can provide a user experience similar to Microsoft Windows.

The idea of Ubuntu developers MATE is to facilitate the user coming from Windows, providing a user experience very similar to the bottom panel, the drop down menu etc however we can later customize the panels, applets include bookmarks, etc..

MATE with Ubuntu 14.10 Beta 2 also debuts the new theme of the GRUB bootloader (see image below) complete with logo and green color characteristic of Mate, with the new version under development also comes GNOME System Tools default application that allows us to easily configure our connection, manage multiple users, runlevel, shared folders via Samba or NFS, set the date and time etc. all through a simple graphical interface. News for the installer with the top panel that can facilitate us access to the Internet and introduced a new slider with the main features of Ubuntu MATE, revisited the theme, and designer of default icons and fixed some bugs.

For more information and to download / install Ubuntu 10.14 Beta 2 MATE just consult this page.

I remember that we can already install Ubuntu 10.14 Beta 2 MATE in our pc (the distribution is already quite stable), just keep it up to date for future stable version without making any changes or re-installation.

For users who have installed Ubuntu 14.10 Beta 1 MATE instead must type in a terminal:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get remove grub-theme-ubuntu-mate
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get remove ubuntu-mate-desktop-policy-priviledges
sudo rm /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00recommends
sudo apt-get purge ibus ibus-anthy ibus-gtk ibus-gtk3 ibus-qt4
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get autoclean

and restart the distribution, we will have to restart MATE Ubuntu 14.10 Beta 2.