The release of Ubuntu 12.04 includes new features and enhancements intended to make Canonical's heavily branded Linux distribution an attractive proposition for consumers and enterprises. Take a look at what's new and get the Ubuntu tour at http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/whats-new.

The Head-Up Display (HUD)
"The new HUD gives you a fast alternative to the traditional, menu-based way of telling your computer what to do. Instead of clicking on menu items to give it instructions, you just press one key to bring up the HUD and start typing what you want to do. You'll then get a list of functions, without ever needing to know in which menu they live."

Or so says Canonical. As an add-on to the Unity interface, the HUD extends the Unity-style search and launch capability pioneered with Unity's lenses. To us, it seems like another bolt-on search capability to make up for the fact that no one has a clue how to find anything in Ubuntu any more. Read more of this post