That is, by default now the ‘login prompt’ is colorized. There is another subtle but a handy change added to the terminal emulator. That said, they’re not yet completely gone as they’re still being used by the Dash. However, when it comes to applications, Ubuntu’s overlay scroll-bars are now gone and they’re now replaced by Gnome3’s scroll-bars. The Desktop…Īs far as the desktop layout is concerned, there are no major changes. GRUB & the Boot-up logo look the same, and I’m pretty sure almost everyone has seen how they look, so I won’t add any screenshots here (it’s actually quite difficult to capture the GRUB screen & the Boot-up logo, otherwise, I would’ve added them here). Anyhow, the installation was carried out without any issues whatsoever and unlike many other distributions, Ubuntu 15.10 was able to correctly identify Fedora 22 and had added an entry in the GRUB menu. The admirable Ubuntu installer (I love its simplicity) also hasn’t changed. It’s quite perfect just the way it is actually, and as the saying goes ‘Don’t fix it, if it ain’t broken’, right? □. And, I took five samples of each test before coming up with the average values, except while measuring the power usage since there’s actually tool which when you once run, takes a lot of samples and is quite accurate. ![]() Please remember that after installing the OS, it was these performance aspects I measured first without making any tweaks, though I added the ‘system monitor’ icon to the Application Launcher before measuring the memory usage (otherwise, if I was to open it through Dash, it would’ve decreased the accuracy level). It's a Dell Vostro V-131 notebook.Īs I always do, I’ve measured the performance aspects of the operating system and have compared it with the current LTS (long term support) which is the version 14.04 (since it’s like the flagship version of Ubuntu’s desktop release) and with the previous Ubuntu 15.04 version. Intel Core i3-2330M CPU, Intel HD 3000 GPU, 4GB RAM (DDR3), Toshiba 7200 RPM (320GB) SATA HDD, Intel N-1030 Wireless adapter, Realtek network adapter ('RTL8168'), LED display with 1366x768 resolution (60Hz/60FPS). ![]() ![]() So anyway, for this Ubuntu 15.10 review, I downloaded the 64-bit version (1.2 GB) and below is a brief description of my computer’s hardware: Previously it was also mentioned that ‘TLP’ (a handy power usage optimizer) will also be shipped by default, but it has not made its way to this release due to unknown reasons. ![]() There’s also a technological preview of the upcoming Unity 8 desktop as well. Kernel is updated to version 4.2, X.org to 1.17.2, Compiz 0.9.12.2 and Unity desktop version is still at 7.3.2 (the same version included in Ubuntu 15.04) without any major features as well. The default set of applications are also updated (Firfefox 41.0.2, LibreOffice 5.0.2.2, Ubuntu Software Center 13.10 and most of the other set of applications which are part of the Gnome3 desktop are updated to 3.16.1, except for the file manager where it’s version is 3.14.1 since it’s patched separately by Ubuntu).įrom a technological point of view, according to the release notes, a lot of efforts have been made to smoothen the transition from the Upstart (init daemon - a core utility that manages boot-up services & applications that work in the background called ‘daemons’) to Systemd which was first initiated with the Ubuntu 15.04 release.
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