Starting with this article, we’re going to introduce you guys to a lot of Web Apps for the recently released Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) operating system.
As you already know, in the past we’ve introduced lots of Unity Lens and Unity Scopes for the Ubuntu Linux distributions, since Canonical invented the Unity interface.
These days, it often feels like an operating system is only as cool as its “apps” — which are separate from applications, mind you. And so it’s not surprising to see Canonical pushing hard to deliver more apps to Ubuntu users, an effort highlighted most recently by the upcoming AppsSprint.
Over the last couple years, Canonical has helped rewrite the face of desktop Linux through Unity and other projects. Now, the company behind Ubuntu wants to rethink the way users interact with the web via a new feature called Ubuntu Web Apps.
Canonical announced today, September 18th, that the Ubuntu Open Week for Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) will take place between 24th and 26th October, 2012, on the usual Ubuntu IRC channel, #ubuntu-classroom.
On November 21, Canonical published details about UnityWebapps vulnerabilities for its Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) operating system.
According to Canonical, the UnityWebapps library could have been made to crash or to run programs as users log in, if it opened a malicious website.
It was discovered that libunity-webapps improperly handled certain hash tables.
Canonical announced that a couple of vulnerabilities had been found in the Linux kernel packages, this time affecting the OMAP4 kernel of the Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) operating system.
The CVE-2012-0957 and CVE-2012-4565 Linux kernel vulnerabilities affected Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) OMAP4.
According to Canonical, two security issues were fixed in the kernel.
Canonical is making a push with Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) and they are not pulling any punches, especially when it comes to promoting the operating system. Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) was launched today, October 18th, and, as usual, people flocked to Canonical official website to download the latest version.
Canonical has launched on September 27th the second and final beta for the upcoming Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) operating system.
Ubuntu 12.10 Beta 2 (Quantal Quetzal) integrates a number of bold updates done by Canonical. We're gotten used to receive stable versions and older kernels, but this time there are some major differences.
With last night's update, Canonical published a major update to the Unity interface of the upcoming Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) operating system, due for release next month.
The improved Unity interface brings new lenses, such as a Shopping Lens for your online shopping needs and a Google Docs Scope for searching through your online stored documents.
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