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Other than that all the rest seems pretty much the same with the exception of speed and responsiveness in favor of this release. To my surprise, I was excited to see that Canonical have included Ubuntu web browser by default with this release, and was curious to try it out. Personally it always ignites in me a sense of exploration to see what did the experts at Canonical had done this time.

Moving on, booting into an installed Ubuntu 14.10 brings with it all the perks of having everything set for you in advance. Nonetheless, in this release my installation experience was different than other times before the installation process felt a bit faster overall though auto configuring of my keyboard didn’t work out-of-the box as I expected.ĭespite so, I wouldn’t call it a deal breaker nor even a minor nuisance as far as I’m concerned (as a Gentoo user, I’m used to configuring things myself), yet I do feel it’s worth mentioning as part of this review.įurthermore, the lack of new features feels a bit like a step backwards too, although on the other hand we might get better stability on that expense. In my experience it seems that Ubuntu has made 2 steps forward, but at least 1 step backwards and the reason I say this is,įor instance, Ubiquity installer (Ubuntu’s default installer) had always managed to recognize my location and preset the keyboard accordingly. It’s a modest list of changes to say the least, as you may notice yourselves, yet it concerns all the essential parts a distro is consisted of.

Widget toolkits – Gtk updated to version 3.12.

Unity – many bugs fixed and features improved support for High-DPI displays.

Oxide (a tool to view web content outside browsers) – updated to use the latest Chromium Content API.

AppArmor (security enhancing tool) – added various policy updates and bug fixes.

Linux kernel 3.16 – Ubuntu 14.10 uses a newer kernel at its core.

Updated Packages – Firefox, Chromium, LibreOffice and Xorg are amongst the most essential packages that got newer with this release.

Well, first things first as they say, let’s begin with a little glimpse at what’s new in this release by summing it up in the following list: What Does Ubuntu 14.10 has to Offer? New Features in Ubuntu 14.10 However, this review will mainly focus on the desktop side of things, trying to figure whether Ubuntu has decided to sacrifice innovativeness for the sake of stability or did it? On paper, at the least, it seems as though Ubuntu 14.10 doesn’t has much new features to offer the users, unless you use the server edition where it gets a bit more interesting over there.