Introducing Ubuntu 'Oneiric Ocelot' 11.10

Presented by Elizabeth KrumbachOctober 11th 2011Philadelphia area Linux Users Group (North)

Elizabeth Krumbach
lyz@ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Community Council Member

Linux Systems Administrator

Board Member of Partimus.org

Unity

Some have said of Unity...

I have yet to meet anybody who likes the unholy mess that is gnome-3 - Linus Torvalds, July 26, 2011
https://plus.google.com/106327083461132854143/posts/SbnL3KaVRtM

But they felt the alternative...

(don't tell anyone, I use Xfce4)

Seriously though, Unity

Polish, polish, polish!

Improved stability

Unity 2D

More lenses

GTK3/GNOME3

gnome-session-fallback

gnome-shell

Ubuntu App Stor..

er, Software Center!

Synaptic

Ubuntu Software Center: 11.04

Ubuntu Software Center: 11.10

developer.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Server

Ubuntu Cloud

Ubuntu Cloud Infrastructure

Ubuntu Cloud Guest

Orchestra

Juju

ARM

Other Changes

3.0 kernel

LightDM (was GDM)

Thunderbird (was Evolution)

Xen as host support

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/server-o-xen-host

IPv6 improvements

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/foundations-o-ipv6-healthcheck

Questions?

lyz@ubuntu.com

Credits

Slide 6: Train Wreck - Prob. Early 1900's published by rcstanley (http://www.flickr.com/photos/rcstanley/)

Slide 7: Train wreck at Montparnasse Station, at Place de Rennes side (now Place du 18 Juin 1940), Paris, France, 1895. Studio Lvy and Sons (Studio Lvy & fils), Public Domain

Slide Review: Amber Graner (akgraner) and Alan Pope (popey)

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