Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal – First Impressions

At the time of writing this article, Ubuntu 11.04 codenamed “Natty Narwhal” is still very much in its nascent stages of development. I really wanted to take it for a spin and write about my first hand impressions on latest build Ubuntu Natty. I installed Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal Alpha 1 in my USB drive and things went pretty smooth from the word go.
Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal Review
Canonical had decided to go with Compiz instead of Mutter as the default window manager for Ubuntu Unity. The very first results of integrating Compiz with Unity has already starting to show up big time in the first alpha release of Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal. Screenshot above is a case in point which show off Compiz expo plugin at work in latest Ubuntu Natty release.

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