Consoles in Ubuntu and automatic upgrade

Posted by Muhammad Khan on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by Muhammad Khan
Published on 2012-06-28T02:15:42Z Indexed on 2012/06/28 3:25 UTC
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So I recently discovered that ubuntu is simultaneously running 6 consoles in addition to the GUI that everybody uses, which can be accessed by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1 ... +F6 and then the default GUI with Ctrl+Alt+F7. What use can these consoles have when I can just open a terminal in the GUI mode? Also, why is having consoles like this advantageous for computer users; wouldn't a GUI be much more simplistic?

Also, running the console told me that I was running a development version of Ubuntu Quantal which is version 12.10. The login screen (correctly?) says that I'm running 12.04 LTS. What does that mean?

Thanks everybody!

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