The second alpha version of Ubuntu 11.10 was resealed few days ago which was code-named as “Oneiric Ocelot” which has been released by Canonical for testing propose. This release has a number of new features that will finally make it to the final release in October.

The most visible changes will be the change from GDM to LightDM. LightDM is extremely customizable and we will see it with some awesome themes soon, it’s a time to wait and watch. LightDM is very light weight and much faster than GDM.

This Second alpha version is based on the 4^th coming Linux kernel 3.0 and will came with GNOME 3.0. However, the default desktop is controversial Unity desktop.

The LightDM platform has replaced the Gnome Display Manager as display and login manager and the backup utility Déjà Dup has been included standard installation.

Canonical has also replaced the Evolution email client by Mozilla Thunderbird.

Ubuntu 11.10 Alpha 2 also includes:

• Firefox 5
• VLC Media Player version 1.1.10
• Mesa 7.11

Final version will be available after the two betas test before the software is released for general public.

Download Ubuntu Alpha-2

Desktop CD

The desktop CD allows you to try Ubuntu without changing your computer at all, and at your option to install it permanently later. This type of CD is what most people will want to use. You will need at least 384MiB of RAM to install from this CD.

There are three images available, each for a different type of computer:

PC (Intel x86) desktop CD

For almost all PCs. This includes most machines with Intel/AMD/etc type processors and almost all computers that run Microsoft Windows, as well as newer Apple Macintosh systems based on Intel processors. Choose this if you are at all unsure.

64-bit PC (AMD64) desktop CD

Choose this to take full advantage of computers based on the AMD64 or EM64T architecture (e.g., Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon, Core 2). If you have a non-64-bit processor made by AMD, or if you need full support for 32-bit code, use the Intel x86 images instead.

64-bit Mac (AMD64) desktop CD

Choose this to take full advantage of computers based on the AMD64 or EM64T architecture (e.g., Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon). If you have a non-64-bit processor made by AMD, or if you need full support for 32-bit code, use the Intel x86 images instead. This image is adjusted to work properly on Mac systems.

Server install CD

The server install CD allows you to install Ubuntu permanently on a computer for use as a server. It will not install a graphical user interface.

There are two images available, each for a different type of computer:

PC (Intel x86) server install CD

For almost all PCs. This includes most machines with Intel/AMD/etc type processors and almost all computers that run Microsoft Windows, as well as newer Apple Macintosh systems based on Intel processors. Choose this if you are at all unsure.

64-bit PC (AMD64) server install CD

Choose this to take full advantage of computers based on the AMD64 or EM64T architecture (e.g., Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon, Core 2). If you have a non-64-bit processor made by AMD, or if you need full support for 32-bit code, use the Intel x86 images instead

Source: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/oneiric/alpha-2/

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