What's new in Ubuntu 12.10 Alpha 2? Well, Ubuntu 12.10 Alpha 2 is now powered by the Linux kernel 3.5.0-2.2 packages, based on the Linux 3.5 RC4 kernel upstream release, and the latest development version of the upcoming GNOME 3.6 desktop environment.
The following important filesystem utilities have been updated in Ubuntu 12.10 Alpha 2: e2fsprogs 1.42.4, mdadm 3.2.5, autofs 2012-06-01, and btrfs-tools 2012-03-28. Also, there's now a new version of the ATI video driver.
Moreover, the Mozilla Firefox 14.0 Beta web browser and Mozilla Thunderbird 14.0 Beta email client were added in this development release of Ubuntu 12.10. For more details take a look at the Ubuntu 12.10 Alpha 2 screenshot tour!
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| Kubuntu 12.10 Alpha 2 |
What's new in Xubuntu 12.10 Alpha 2? Well, the second Alpha version of Xubuntu 12.10 is built on top of the Xfce 4.10 desktop environment. It includes GIMP 2.8 and gThumb 3.0.1.
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| Xubuntu 12.10 Alpha 2 |
On October 18th, 2012, Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) will become the seventeenth release of the Ubuntu operating system. See you again in one month, on July 26th, for the third and last Alpha release of the upcoming Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal).
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On the Dell Vostro 360, Ubuntu 12.10 Alpha 2 finally fixes the "X blink" bug, but still needs extra boot parameters to enable "suspend" and brightness controls: http://is.gd/grpquant.
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