Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) will be released on October 10, and at the end of August, the Ubuntu team announced the new wallpapers that will be used in this new version, in addition to one default wallpaper, Ubuntu 10.10 also offers 17 beautiful wallpapers. In the first Beta release of Ubuntu 10.10 in early September, the desktop adopted that default wallpaper.
However, this default wallpaper may just be an attempt by the Ubuntu development team, some testers pointed out that the latest Ubuntu 10.10 version uses another default wallpaper, although the hue is basically the same, but gives up the halo effect, but uses the glare, which can give people a brighter feeling. In addition of 17 wallpaper and not updated.
Ubuntu 10.10 will use the GNOME 2.32 desktop environment, use Linux Kernel 2.6.35, and the applications will use the latest stable version. This includes OpenOffice 3.2, the Firefox 3.6 browser, Transmission 2 download, Pidgin 2.7 instant messaging, Thunderbird 3.1 mail client, and more.