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Ubuntu 14.10 Preview, Wallen Walkback, and the Pantheon

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 29th of August 2014 07:25:29 AM Filed under

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Today in Linux news, Terry Relph-Knight takes the new Ubuntu 14.10 Beta 1 for a test-drive and wrote up his opinion. Jack Wallen today said, "Linux on the desktop isn't dead." In other news, Bryan Lunduke spent his last week running the Pantheon desktop environment and shared his thoughts today. And finally today, Bruce Byfield explains why Linux "isn't a desktop alternative."

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