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Yahoo! comes to Ubuntu
Sam Varghese
Thursday, 04 March 2010 11:40
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One of the most noticeable changes in the next version of Ubuntu - version 10.04 due for release next month - will be the presence of Yahoo! as the default search engine in Firefox.That change has arrived with alpha 3 of Lucid Lynx, the official name for the version.
When Canonical announced the change in January, after negotiating a revenue-sharing deal with Yahoo!, there were many adverse comments, with those who made them not taking into account the fact that Canonical incidentally needs to balance its books if it is going to continue paying developers to work on the distribution.
Developers, by the way, cannot live on love and fresh air. They also need what we in India term roti, kapda aur makaan - food, clothing and shelter.
The change to Yahoo! does not in any way get in the path of someone who loves Google so dearly that they cannot live with it - all it takes is a single mouse-click and a bit of dragging to set Google as the default search engine.
Another big change noticeable in Lucid Lynx is the boot speed. In alpha 3, the hardware abstraction layer has been fully removed and instead DeviceKit looks after the process.
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