Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail Released • Hacker News Board

Re: Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail Released

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Post by dumi » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 9:57 AM UTC

Anybody have the link for Ubuntu Gnome 13.04 release note or for download links?

Re: Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail Released

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Post by StavrosK » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 9:59 AM UTC

Does anyone know if this will run on the Raspberry Pi (at least the Ubuntu Mini version)?

Re: Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail Released

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Post by fakeer » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 10:09 AM UTC

buster wrote: post #4

Now what about releease notes? :-) (edit: some information is here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RaringRingtail/TechnicalOverview ) Currently i am thinking of switching to LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) because i don't really like the way Ubuntu is going with Unity, Mir, upstart, doing too much stuff on its own. Anyone with experience from LMDE here? Is it stable? Pros? Cons?

Used it sometime ago. It was good. Sane. Beautiful with quite normal decisions regarding what users want/need, contrary to Ubuntu's what we want users to want/need. Stable. Loved the way it worked just out of the box.

And the best thing was it didn't depend on Ubuntu. I said this because I liked even Mint Desktop better than Ubuntu which it was based upon.

Since then I've switched to some other OS.

Re: Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail Released

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Post by fakeer » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 10:11 AM UTC

StavrosK wrote: post #22

Does anyone know if this will run on the Raspberry Pi (at least the Ubuntu Mini version)?

Any particular reason or use case for this?

A friend has received his Pi yesterday, hasn't set it up. Can ask him to try it :-)

Re: Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail Released

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Post by vacri » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 10:12 AM UTC

buster wrote: post #4

Now what about releease notes? :-) (edit: some information is here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RaringRingtail/TechnicalOverview ) Currently i am thinking of switching to LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) because i don't really like the way Ubuntu is going with Unity, Mir, upstart, doing too much stuff on its own. Anyone with experience from LMDE here? Is it stable? Pros? Cons?

I was on LMDE a year or two ago. I still found it a little 'one-step-removed'. Cinnamon is in the Debian repos now - just use Debian testing or unstable.

Re: Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail Released

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Post by 0x0 » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 10:13 AM UTC

josteink wrote: post #5

It does feel slightly odd to (finally) have arm listed as an available architecture for the images. And I say that as someone who has run Ubuntu on my "Android tablet". I guess I'm just not yet used to "proper Linux" being something you can download for embedded-type architectures and devices without heading to XDA first. Still. Definitely Good to see Ubuntu expanding support to the sort of devices which are actually…

That's been a common sight for Debian users for ages :)

http://www.debian.org/ports/ http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.7/

Re: Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail Released

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Post by vy8vWJlco » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 10:19 AM UTC

They supposedly address the privacy bug:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/04/ubuntu_13_04_review/

Re: Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail Released

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Post by Skalman » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 10:22 AM UTC

They still haven't updated the main page, nor the download page - http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop still suggests to get Ubuntu 12.10.

Re: Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail Released

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Post by Keyframe » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 10:23 AM UTC

I was looking around youtube for unity videos and found Richard Stallman talk about Ubuntu: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP8CNp-vksc

Re: Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail Released

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Post by Shish2k » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 10:37 AM UTC

stefanve wrote: post #15

I played with the beta and I have to say that it is way more polished than 12.04/12.10. I have played for many years with Linux (since early 1990s) but it was always to much of a hazel to use it as my main os. But since 12.04 I fully switched from OSX to Ubuntu the only thing I kind of missed was the polish of osx. 13.04 makes lots of things nicer and more fluid. I actually like Ubuntu better than osx. One thing left…

Speaking of which, one thing that most people coming to ubuntu from windows and OSX often don't spot (which I think you have, but I post mostly for the benefit of other readers) - Ubuntu, much as canonical has done a lot of custom work on it, is still linux. You can customise it in pretty much any and every way that you want. You can even not use Unity at all if you don't like it -- no reason to throw out all the great foundations and switch to a different distro just because you don't like one of the default UI settings :P

(There are several valid reasons for switching from one linux distro to another, it just makes me sad to see so many "I don't like Unity so I'm moving to Gentoo" posts -_-)