Canonical releases Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Alpha 1

Canonical, and the Ubuntu developers, have announced the availability of the first alpha release of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, code named “Lucid Lynx”. The first development milestone is the first of three planned alpha releases.

Lucid Lynx Alpha 1 is based on the 2.6.32 Linux kernel and features a number of changes over the previous 9.10 release, including updated packages. Additionally, the first alpha features the removal of the HAL package, allowing the release to boot and resume from suspend even faster.

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