Two easy steps on how you can upgrade your existing Ubuntu 10.04 install to Ubuntu 10.10

Ubuntu lovers are eagerly waiting for the next release of 10.10 Maverick Meerkat and to make things even better, Shipit, which provides free delivery of CDs for Ubuntu releases, is open for pre-orders.

With the final stable release only a few days away, we can safely try out the release candidate as it marks a final development release. So, most of the features should be complete.

Canonical has released the first of four Alphas of Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat. As it has been released just after weeks after the Lucid release, it is not very much different from Lucid from the outside.

Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat has been code frozen and the first milestone Alpha 1 will be released on schedule. The first Alpha of Maverick Meerkat is expected on June 3, 2010.

In the Ubuntu Developers Summit, Aurelien Gateau presented a Global Menu for the next Kubuntu release.

Mark Shuttleworth has announced the codename of the Ubuntu release after Lucid Lynx today. In a post in his blog, Shuttleworth announced that Ubuntu 10.10 will be called “Maverick Meerkat”.