Unity: What’s new in Ubuntu 12.04
Unity, the default shell in Ubuntu 11.04 and later will enjoy or not but it is undeniable to say that the developers have done a great job last year even considering that rely on graphics drivers on Linux often involves the appearance of bug directly attributable to the program that uses it.
A few days ago he attempted to Reddit question and answer session with the participation of the leading developers of Unity, which have declined to say as an introduction to their almost total alienation from the process design of Unity. So many questions, and especially so many interesting answers …
Apparently for Ubuntu 12.04 will undergo other interesting changes Unity (now private) that should not affect the stability of a suitable LTS. Among these, however, may not be able to change the location of the launcher and its much-desired thermization.
Ubuntu 12.04 should also be solved the bug that causes a crash if you want to enable/disable a plugin by Compiz Config Settings Manager.
Also interesting is the question “Why develop Gnome Shell Unity if we already have?”. Recalling that when the development of Unity has begun Gnome Shell proceeded rather slowly, Jason Smith (aka the creator of Docky BOD) pointed out that the latter did not like what they really were the technologies on which it was based. Sam Spillaz noted also that this would be like asking the question why there are competing projects such as Gnome, KDE and XFCE. Free competition in free markets in short.
P.S. major improvements are on the way to reduce the startup time to login.
Ubuntu One should be the biggest breakthrough for Linux in the coming years.
I’ve tried Meerkat, but as always, the newer audio drivers is not supported by skype and I lose my microphone. Now, it may be Skype’s fault, but most causal users will blame Linux.
Silverlight does not support DRM in Moonlight, so I can’t watch Netflix.
Other than that, it is a great OS. I particularly love Konqueror on Kubuntu because it handles every possible protocol you throw at it, sftp, http, samba, you name it.
And there is so much support for ubuntu on the web that you can simply ask a question to Google, and you are 99% likely to hit a link of somebody that was trying to do just that.
As a matter of fact, because of the openness of Linux, I do believe that Linux users are more productive than Win or Mac users because there is not black box you cant peek inside. And that allows any type of user to better understand his/her job.
There is an underestimation of the power of marketing. Because the Linux distros don’t spend a dime in marketing, they don’t get any popularity. So they stay a jewel precious only to those who know how to find them, and their true value.
The one thing I did after installing Ubuntu 12.04……
…..i’ve installed back Ubuntu 10.10