“The Ubuntu GNOME Remix is a mostly pure GNOME desktop experience built from the Ubuntu repositories. The Quantal Quetzal Alpha Release of Ubuntu GNOME Remix 12.10 is a developer snapshot to give you a very early glance at the next version of Ubuntu GNOME Remix.” - Team Pr0xy
For quite some time now there’s been reluctance from a good portion of the “old school” Linux community when it comes to finding an appreciation for such recent distributions of Linux as Ubuntu. Many still hold that the older Linux GUI shells that paved the way, such as GNOME, are less bloated, quicker and do all that a computer needs to do.
Recently a match was made between Ubuntu and GNOME that may very well be the vehicle to bring the GNOME crowd along for the Ubuntu ride.
First, let’s make this very clear. Ubuntu GNOME Remix 12.10 is not a Canonical development, nor a GNOME development. So please do not expect support from either of those two developers nor should you come to expect the same level of support that those two distributions currently receive. This is not to say that Team Pr0xy (the makers of Ubuntu GNOME Remix 12.10) will not provide great support for their product, because they very well may provide excellent support for it, but it must be noted that neither Canonical nor GNOME will currently be supporting you in a Ubuntu GNOME Remix 12.10 journey. With that said, we can move on to a few details with regards to it.
Ubuntu GNOME Remix 12.10 has a 32-bit and 64-bit version, although ARM and amd64+mac builds aren’t available as of yet. The current release is certainly more for developers and Team Pr0xy makes it clear that “We do not have the bandwidth to offer standard downloads.” So expect your download of the distro to perhaps be a bit slow at the moment considering this is breaking news.
The next scheduled release of Ubuntu GNOME Remix 12.10 is slated for the the same week as Ubuntu 12.10 Beta 2 in late September.
As far as the default apps contained in Ubuntu GNOME Remix 12.10. They’re pretty much inline with all that is known to GNOME.
* You get Epiphany as the default Internet browser.
* As in GNOME you get Abiword as the default word processing package
* Gnumeric for spreadsheets
Do note that if you intend to use Flash, Epiphany doesn’t support Flash under Ubuntu 12.10. At the time of this report, this is a known and open issue, so you’ll probably want to use another browser such as Firefox, Chrome or otherwise. Unlike the Epiphany Internet browser problem though, you can install LibreOffice (as discussed last week here) and use it as your office suite if you prefer, with no problem whatsoever. Also, Ubuntu bubble-style notifications are not a default feature but can easily be added by installing and using notify-osd.
To learn more about Ubuntu GNOME Remix 12.10. Visit Team Pr0xy or the UbuntuGNOME Wiki Page