Welcome to Maverick Meerkat alpha 2, which will in time become Ubuntu 10.10. New features: updated packages; the GNOME base platform has been updated to the current 2.31 versions, this particularly includes the new dconf and gsettings API; Evolution was updated to the 2.30 version, which operates much faster compared to the version in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS; KDE was updated to the current 4.5 RC 1 release; Qt was updated to the current 4.7 beta release; the new Unity interface is now the default in Ubuntu Netbook Edition; Linux kernel 2.6.35 based on 2.6.35-rc3; new cloud-init features....