Ubuntu 12.10 is here

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Ubuntu 12.10 was released on schedule on 18 October 2012.

Ryan Paul, writing for Ars Technica, said in April 2012 when the name was announced "A Quetzal is a colorful bird that is common to Central America. The most well-known variety, the resplendent quetzal, is known for its beauty. The name is a good fit for Ubuntu, which aims to soar in the cloud, offer visual appeal without compromising function, and avoid smacking into closed windows."

The Ubuntu Developer Summit held in May 2012 set the priorities for this release. They are forecast to include an improved boot up sequence and log-in screen, dropping Unity 2D in favor of lower hardware requirements for Unity 3D, wrap around dialogs and toolbars for the HUD and a "vanilla" version of Gnome-Shell as an option. The release will likely include GNOME 3.6, Python 3 and the 3.5 Linux kernel.[it will ship with Python 3 in the image, but with Python 2 available in the repositories, via the "python" package. The kernel will have the PAE switched on by default.

In July 2012 development versions of Ubuntu 12.10 received a new combined user, session and system menu.[ This release will also include Ubuntu Web Apps, a means of running web applications directly from the desktop, without having to open a browser. It will also use Nautilus 3.4 as its file manager, in place of the 3.5 and newer versions to retain features deleted from later versions.

In September 2012 Canonical’s Kate Stewart announced that the Ubuntu 12.10 image will not fit on a compact disc, saying "There is no longer a traditional CD sized image, DVD or alternate image, but rather a single 800MB Ubuntu image that can be used from USB or DVD." There is, however, a third-party project that has created a version of Ubuntu 12.10 that will fit on a CD. It uses LZMA2 compression instead of the DEFLATE compression used on the official Ubuntu DVD image.

Also in late September 2012 it was announced that the version of Unity to be shipped with Ubuntu 12.10 would by default include searches of Amazon.com for searched terms. This move caused immediate controversy among Ubuntu users, particularly with regard to privacy issues, and caused Mark Shuttleworth to issue a statement indicating that this feature is not adware and labelled many of the objections "FUD" (Fear, uncertainty and doubt). Shuttleworth stated "What we have in 12.10 isn’t the full experience, so those who leap to judgement are at maximum risk of having to eat their words later. Chill out. If the first cut doesn’t work for you, remove it, or just search the specific scope you want (there are hotkeys for all the local scopes)." Regardless users filed a Launchpad bug report on the feature requesting that it be made a separate lens and not included with general desktop searches for files, directories and applications. The degree of community push-back on the issue resulted in plans by the developers to make the dash and where it searches user configurable via a GUI setting dialogue. There were concerns that the setting dialogue would not be completed in time for the final version of Ubuntu 12.10, but it was completed and is present in the final version of 12.10.

In the week prior to the stable release of Ubuntu 12.10 data privacy advocate Luís de Sousa indicated that the inclusion of the shopping lens, installed without explicit permission of the user, violates European Directive 95/46/EC on data privacy. That directive requires that the "data subject has unambiguously given his consent" in situations where personal identifying information is sent.

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