Like
every year the Ubuntu (second)
upgrade season is coming. Like every year I'm taking e brief test of
beta releases in order to have preview of novelties and, most
important, possible problems. I downloaded so both the latest
Ubuntu-Gnome ISO disk
image (Utopic Unicorn Beta 1) and prepared a bootable SD card to
test it on the EEEPC.
First
impressions
The
live disk with Ubuntu-Gnome booted in a reasonable time, welcoming
the user with the usual flat-looking Gnome-Shell look
at a
first view there are no big news (no news good news especially on old
computers) but after a deeper look some interesting novelties appear.
First
in the top-right menu a “location” option has been added:
System
settings
The
system settings appear to provide some new interesting configuration
option:
the
notifications settings allow to choose which applications can notify
events to the user trough Gnome-Shell notification messages.
The
privacy settings allow to select some privacy related details like
screen-lock, name visibility or history and temporary files.
The
search settings allow to configure the system wide search function
last
but not least the sharing settings provide an easy interface to
enable or disable files and screen sharing over the network.
Applications
Among
applications available by default in Ubuntu-Gnome one caught my
attention. Maps: a simple but promising maps application with both a
map like
and
a satellite view visualization
based
on OpenStreetMap data. It
might not be as detailed as Google maps and might even make your
computer even more “phone-like” but it looks an interesting
application especially if it will integrated with more data in
future.
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