Upgrading Ubuntu 12.10 - Quantal Quetzal and Review

Its interesting to find yet another upgrade and a new release from Ubuntu team. And this time it is versioned as 12.10 also called "Quantal Quetzal"

So here is the step by step sequence how you can upgrade your existing Ubuntu OS to the new 12.10.

But why an upgrade?
The new Ubuntu promises a new Linux kernel, which is more optimized interms of performance. For example my home laptop is an Intel SOLO processor, which lacks performance. The only advantage I get is its long battery charge. So the overall GUI is much more fluid, and much more optimized Linux Kernel, hence I badly need such an upgrade.

Please find the Update Manager as shown below:

Once you open it, if there are no current distribution upgrades, you can see it shows there is a new upgrade/release available. You can choose "Upgrade" option as shown below:

Here you can choose to remove the old and obsolete apps which are no longer required, or been replaced by newer and better alternatives.

After a reboot with the new Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal:

Help:
For more details and to learn the GUI (in general about Ubuntu Unity interface, and few GUI changes specific to Ubuntu 12.10), kindly visit the generic "Help" app found in the Accessories category/type as shown below.

Here is the Kernel information of Ubuntu 12.10. As you can see this initial version packs with Linux Kernel 3.5.x. This is almost the new Linux Kernel followed recently by 3.6.x series of releases. This Kernel found to be extremely smooth and stable, and hence users will notice the difference of this new Ubuntu in their laptops/PCs which are quite old, and lacks resources/capacity almost similar to my home laptop, which is just an old Intel SOLO processor Acer Aspire slim laptop.