"The GNOME Shell is now able to run without 3D acceleration. A major restructuring of the filesystem sees the demise of the /bin/, /sbin/, /lib/ and /lib64/ directories." --source: http://h-online.com/-1585486 Good news for users of older hardware that doesn't support 3D acceleration, since Ubuntu seems to drop Unity 2D support starting with 12.10: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA5OTA Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/           Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174