The second milestone in the Ubuntu 12.10 development cycle has been made available for download.

Anyone expecting to find lots of changes to gasp in wonderment at will be disappointed, though there are a handful of updated packages – including Firefox, LibreOffice and Ubuntu One – bringing some minor features/UI changes.

The majority of changes in this milestone are underneath the hood.

Alpha releases are not recommended for installing unless you’re a developer, but are suitable for testing using live media or in virtual machines.

Downloads can be found hiding at the link behind the button below.

Download Ubuntu 12.10 Alpha 2