Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) review

Title: Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) review
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wm4bama

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Date Posted：10/19/2012 6:29 PMCopy HTML

Summary: Ubuntu 12.10 contains more controversial changes than expected. If you can live with or work around those changes, it remains a powerful and useful desktop Linux operating system.

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Here's a bullet list of the new features and changes for Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal):

New GRUB 2 boot loader
Graphics makeover for Ubuntu Greeter and the default theme
Remote login/remote desktop access added to Greeter log-in prompt
Nautilus file manager sticks at version 3.4
Linux kernel incremented to version 3.5
Unity revs to 6.8.0; Unity 2D is dropped; previews added
Software Updater simplified
Dash search returns online results from Ubuntu One and Amazon
Dash preview
New Dash Photo lens; new Gwibber icon
New Share Links tab in Ubuntu One Control Panel
New centralised management for online accounts
New versions for some bundled applications
Disk image is now 800MB, so install requires a USB memory or a DVD
Menus are reorganised and many previous menu choices consolidated under Dash
Python revs to version 3 (with version 2 still supported for now)

I feel more like I do now than I did a while ago...