Canonical developers have just announced officially the availability of Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal , the new edition of its popular distribution comes with some significant changes.

One of the most notable is the existence of a single image ISO of 800 Mbytes , and therefore “not fit” in a conventional CD “- and is designed for use in a USB flash drive or DVD. So, instead of having to choose different images for x86 or x86_64 different options, all of these alternatives are integrated into a single image. Among the consequences: as notify, the image disappears “alternate”.

Among the novelties is the greatest support to webapps , who try to remove the barrier between native application and the web application, and whose clear examples to Twitter or Gmail, you can “anchor” to the left sidebar, the popular Unity Dock.

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focus on Unity is another of the highlights of the distribution, with new features like previews , which offers a preview of the applications and files for which we are moving in the Dash. These previews also affect application installation , to avoid that we have to go through the Ubuntu Software Center, and we can look for the desired application and then install it without the traditional manager. It also has improved how Expo (Spread in Unity), and we can close windows opened from the thumbnail view of open applications.

integration of our social media accounts is also interesting: we can include as many as we want, and all of them allow for the Dash search results appear related to these social networks. Thus will we have photos and documents posted on our Flickr account, Facebook or Twitter, for example. This section integration also enter the controversy “Shopping Lens” , which presents the results of the search Amazon, you can disable an option in the privacy settings, but it will also affect the results of our social media accounts if Ubuntu had activated.

encryption options during installation (which precisely is included after eliminating alternate image) and remote login are interesting (the latter especially in business environments), as well as some new features in Ubuntu One to access more options file synchronization.

this edition of Ubuntu we add the remaining officers derived distributions, which stands on Ubuntu Server 12.10 , which is included in OpenStack “Folsom” , the latest version of this platform to launch all kinds of implementations based on Cloud Computing Open Source solutions. It also has integrated Tomcat 7 , a new distributed file system called Ceph, and has updated the tool Juju provisioning in enterprise environments, a “ apt-get for services “for example facilitates the implementation of a WordPress with all its components (web server, database, and PHP support).

can download Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal from the Canonical web downloads. Enjoy it!

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