Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) released

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And with that, the Ubuntu team is pleased to announce Ubuntu 10.10.
Codenamed "Maverick Meerkat", 10.10 continues Ubuntu's proud tradition
of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a
high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution.

[...]

Ubuntu 10.10 is Released

As the above, Maverick is just released... but they say before the announcement as well as:

[...] The Ultimate answer to Life, the Universe and
Everything is...42, and in its' purest form 101010. Which suggests that
what you really need to know is 'What was the Question?'. The great
distribution kindly pointed out that what the problem really was that
no-one knew the question. Accordingly, the distribution designed a set
of successors, marked by a circle of friends...to ultimately bring Unity
to all things living...Ubuntu 10.10, to find the question to the
ultimate answer.

Ubuntu 10.10 is Released

The number 42? 42 = 0x101010 ?

(2^1) + (2^3) + (2^5) = 42

2^1+2^3+2^5 - Google Search

:)