Ubuntu announces 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) Beta 1

Note that this version of Ubuntu will not be shipping with Python 2. That's kind of a big deal.

I was about to say "What the hell? Beta already?" and then I realized it was almost October. Summer flew past, wow...

<i>There is no longer a traditional CD-sized image, DVD or alternate image, but rather a single 800MB Ubuntu image that can be used from USB or DVD</i><p>(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

I really think it's time Ubuntu ditches the bizarre animal names. This one is going to be barely pronounceable for most of the world. 12.10 would suffice

Looks like Wayland is not included in this release after all.

As a developer from Guatemala, I must say I am proud.

Looks like this one will handle dual monitor properly with nvidia cards at least.

A (bit more) stable Telepathy stack for KDE is a big deal.<p>Also LightDM and guest mode finally come to Kubuntu. I hope it gets backported to 12.04. I'd prefer keeping my LTS system.

Using it now, but kinda stuck on an ia32-libs problem<p><a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ia32-libs/+bug/1016294" rel="nofollow">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ia32-libs/+bug/101...</a>

Bummer, I didn't see anything about hidpi support in there.