While the animals honored in this way are not necessarily unheard of, many of them are either uncommon or infamous in some way. I would be surprised if most people could tell me what an Eft or an Ibex was. Or a Narwhal, or an Ocelot. For the curious amongst you, i will save you some googling. An Eft is a kind of Red Newt, whereas and Ibex is a mountain goat.
A Narwhal is a kind of Unicorned Whale no, really, they live in the arctic. A Ocelot is a wild cat, like a small leopard. Some people keep them as pets. How to Execute a.
Run or. Add that to the option of encrypting your home folder during the installation, and you've got a pretty solid set of built-in privacy tools. The default selection of included apps is sadly Ubuntu's weakest point. Now, there are plenty of free and paid options in the Software Center and online that are simple enough to install and it's not as if OS X and Windows have the best applications ever written prepackaged.
But, the integration between Apple and Microsoft's home-grown tools and their respective OSes is much cleaner than the hodgepodge of apps that grace the default Ubuntu install. Two of the worst offenders are Libre Office and Ubuntu One. The issues here have less to do with the quality of the apps, and more with their tendency to distract from the otherwise polished environment. Instead, it still sports in-app menus that prove disorienting as you switch from one app to the next. Similarly, Ubuntu One one of Canonical's in-house products was created using an entirely different set of software tools from the rest of Ubuntu's default apps.
The QT framework that provides its backbone makes it easier to port from Linux to Windows and maintain a consistent look, but it stands out like a sore thumb when placed next to Firefox, Gwibber or Nautilus the file manager. That being said, the 5GB of free cloud-synced provided by Ubuntu One is a great feature, and one that's more flexible than many of its competitors like iCloud and Dropbox.
And no other major OS includes a full fledged office suite out of the box. Ultimately, all of the programs that come installed by default are serviceable, but there are better options out there. Firefox is great but, with Adobe all but abandoning Flash for Linux, Chrome is the better option if you want up-to-date plug ins. Gwibber is a serviceable social networking client with Twitter and Facebook support, but it lacks advanced features like multiple columns and frequently even fails to display profile images.
Thunderbird handles e-mail with aplomb and is easily a best in-class app, but it's part of a dying breed and has its own visual inconsistencies that clash with Ubuntu's design. The Rhythmbox Music Manager certainly organizes music, but it doesn't look great doing it and is short on features. The Shotwell photo manager is fine for those who simply want to pull their images off a camera and organize them into galleries, but it can only publish, not sync, photos to online services like Flickr and Picasa.
Only Empathy instant messaging and Transmission BitTorrent don't scream to be replaced. The Ubuntu Software Center thankfully offers plenty of options for upgrading your current selection of apps. Like many of the other programs, the Software Center is a little rough around the edges, but a great feature set more than makes up for its sparse aesthetics.
Perhaps our favorite is the ability to quickly and easily sync apps between computers. Rather than search out all the apps we needed to install to get the Lenovo in shape for daily use at Engadget, we simply logged into our Ubuntu account pulled up the list of apps install on our MacBook.
You're even able to quickly filter out the software that exists on both machines, leaving you only with a list of what's missing. Historically, Ubuntu has always worked well with ThinkPads, and that does not appear to have changed with Precise Pangolin. Out of the box everything worked as it should, with the exception of the fingerprint reader -- a small sacrifice.
Things were a little different on the Apple front. Both the multitouch trackpad and WiFi worked from the first boot, which is a change from While this isn't news for the LTE card -- open-source drivers for the technology still aren't mature -- the CDMA dongle has always functioned flawlessly. Most everything else we threw at the OS iPods, iPhones, Nexus phones, keyboards, external monitors all worked without a hitch.
In our limited testing Ubuntu Still, animations seem snappier, Unity responds more swiftly and there where was once lag, now there is none. In fact, we'd go so far as to say that not only is Precise Pangolin the fastest version of Ubuntu, but also snappier than both OS X and Windows. While making apples-to-apples comparisons of Linux, Windows and OS X is difficult, we can say for certain that benchmarks back up the performance boost in Precise over earlier versions of Ubuntu. In particular, Open GL and 3D performance seems to be greatly improved over Oneiric Oceolot, according to benchmarks performed by Phoronix.
The same site also found power draw has decreased since The battery life indicator tells us we should be able to get roughly three hours and 15 minutes on a charge from our three-year-old ThinkPad with the WiFi on and the screen brightness at percent. Actual tests put that number at just under three hours. After a few days of use we're already inclined to say Ubuntu Unity 5. The login screen has a new look with new buttons and animation even though a shell other than Unity can be chosen at login, Ubuntu's developers call this the Unity Greeter :.
Unity 2D has been updated, and differences in appearance between it and Unity 3D are now quite subtle: for example, Launcher bar items only appear to stack in Unity 3D. As anticipated, this release of Unity includes the Head-Up Display or HUD, a predictive command feature that's toggled on and off by tapping the left-hand Alt key. Commands can be selected by moving the highlight with the arrow keys and executed by pressing the Return key, or directly executed by mouse-clicking a choice.
Sometimes the suggestions made by HUD can seem a little wild. The stability and ease-of use of Unity's multi-monitor mode has been improved, and has been demonstrated running a system with six monitors.
This screenshot is for the Displays panel on a system with only one display, but the new Launcher and sticky edges options can still be seen. Reveal signalling for the Launcher has been added.
Now when the Launcher is concealed and the mouse cursor is pushed against the left edge of the display, a shadowed border appears, signalling that the Launcher is about to be revealed. The reveal behaviour for the Launcher and some other settings can be changed in the Appearance panel to reveal only if the top left corner is nudged. The appearance of Launcher tooltips and quicklists has been improved and the Dash, Workspace and Bin icons now borrow the average colour of the desktop wallpaper also referred to as 'chameleonic behaviour'.
Mouse-over states in Dash are now signalled with a more visible highlight, for example in the lens bar. For those who find the Launcher icons too large, there is now an icon size slider in the Appearance settings panel the two extremes of icon size are shown in the composite image of the Launcher above : unfortunately this feature is not available in Ubuntu 2D.
A new lens, the Video lens, has been added to Dash that brings together access to both online video — such as the BBC iPlayer and YouTube — and access to offline clips stored in the Video folder. The File lens, previously limited to Zeitgeist searches, is now global in scope and can find files not previously accessed.
LIMs Locally Integrated Menus , an optional Unity feature that adds a title bar and drop-down text menus to unmaximised application windows, were not ready for this release and are expected to appear later this year — possibly as an update, or in Ubuntu At present some applications, LibreOffice for example, retain their menus within their own window, while in others — including Brasero — the menu moves to the Ubuntu menu bar at the top of the display.
Changes to the Software Centre An optional Recommendations feature has been added to the Software Centre for filtered application suggestions. You'll need to create or sign onto an Ubuntu Software Centre Store account to receive the recommendations.
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