5. New Apps and Defaults

Now included in Oneiric Ocelot are Thunderbird for email, Déjà Dup for backup and Gwibber for microblogging. LightDM now uses the new Unity greeter by default, and was updated to the current unstable version 3.1.5, a pre-release build of GNOME 3.2. The Ubuntu Software Center, meanwhile, lets you search for top-rated apps through a dedicated view, and standalone “.deb” file installations have reportedly been sped up considerably.

6. Nuts and Bolts

This latest Ubuntu 11.10 version includes a new kernel based on v3.0.3 of the main . GNU toolchain, meanwhile, is now based on GCC 4.6 for i386, AMD64 and ARM OMAP3/OMAP4 architectures.

7. Lubuntu