Ubuntu 12.10 will no longer be supported

Following 18 months of official support, Canonical has finally pulled the curtains down on Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal. Ubuntu 12.10 is no longer supported, so users are advised to upgrade to Ubuntu 14.04 via Ubuntu 13.10.

Ubuntu 12.10 was released on October 18, 2012. Canonical founder, Mark Shuttleworth, had announced that Ubuntu 12.10 would be named Quantal Quetzal in April 2012, and it was first in a series of three releases before the next LTS release. Meanwhile, support for the 13.10 release will also end this July. As such, Ubuntu’s latest release, 14.04 LTS, is the only viable option for long term Ubuntu users.

Ubuntu’s latest release for the desktop comes with a slew of performance improvements. Users will notice a slicker experience, with improvements to the Unity UI. The release also includes all the tools required for business usage, including the remote delivery of applications, compatibility with Windows file formats, browser-based cloud solutions and the Microsoft Office compatible Libre Office suite. You now get the option to use Unity 8, which is also the UI used on mobile versions of the OS—a major step forward in what Canonical terms ‘complete convergence’. Further, the Ubuntu app store will come with a slew of converged apps that will give developers the freedom to write code once, yet make it usable on a string of devices and screen sizes.