Ubuntu 9.10 is here

After 6 months of waiting ( the normal time for Ubuntu releases) Ubuntu 9.10 is here. Today (29 Octomber) I upgraded my laptop at Ubuntu 9.10. What is Ubuntu promising with this new release:

Faster, simplified, better-looking boot experience for most users in other words was redesigned from many points of view
Audio revamp – Pulse audio
Firefox 3.5 – no more comments

Other cool things:

Ubuntu One – a new technology which offer you 2Gb of free storage over internet (I should check that myself)
Better integration with: Flickr, Facebook, Picassa, Youtube, last.fm and other social sites.
Office – Openoffice 3.0
Games:

Over 400 completely free and completely cool games. Solitaire is not the only game in town.

Fully translated into 23 languages

But you should try install/upgrade yourself to see all this differences.
Download http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download
Features http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/910features/

Ubuntu 9.10 on my laptop

Quick Tip: Untrusted application launcher

If you copy your shortcuts from one system to another and you don’t preserve the right attributes on this files then is possible to get a warning everytime when you run a application from your desktop or your menus.

This shortcut should be a *.desktop file and it should have your rights on it or it should have minimum read and execute for group or others.

to fix that just run

sudo chmod ugo+rx *.desktop

That means you give rx rights (read and execute) to ugo (user, group and other).
So now, you also learned how to set the proper file rights

I know you can also use mark as trusted button, but is very useful when you have more than 40 shortcuts on your desktop.