Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail Released • Hacker News Board

Re: Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail Released

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Post by salmanapk » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 11:04 AM UTC

eli_gottlieb wrote: post #34

esennesh@lap282:~$ sudo do-release-upgrade Checking for a new Ubuntu release No new release found

Same. Local mirrors not updated yet I guess.

Re: Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail Released

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Post by kodisha » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 11:08 AM UTC

eli_gottlieb wrote: post #34

esennesh@lap282:~$ sudo do-release-upgrade Checking for a new Ubuntu release No new release found

Their timing, especially for us in Europe is really bad.

If they announce update it should be available for us before we start doing actual work.

Re: Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail Released

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Post by Osmium » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 11:13 AM UTC

In case anyone else was wondering what the difference was between the Mac and non-Mac releases is:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/37999/what-is-different-about...

Re: Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail Released

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Post by claudius » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 11:13 AM UTC

vacri wrote: post #25

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.

rmadison claims that it is only in sid, which is an important distinction, as current testing will soon be released as Wheezy.

Re: Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail Released

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Post by vacri » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 11:16 AM UTC

claudius wrote: post #44

vacri wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

rmadison claims that it is only in sid, which is an important distinction, as current testing will soon be released as Wheezy.

A good point, though for most techies, running sid/Unstable should be alright on their desktop.

Re: Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail Released

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Post by Surio » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 11:20 AM UTC

simon_weber wrote: post #35

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 tried stock Mint for some time, but found it buggy. I was a longtime Ubuntu user before that, having switched for reasons similar to yours. Since then I've moved on to CrunchBang [0], which I absolutely love. For me, it hits the sweet spot of having everything I need without all the extra pizzazz (cruft?) of something like Ubuntu or Mint. [0] http://crunchbang.org

I've liked ubuntu and actually still use it.

I started using #! sometime ago. I agree with the lightweight aspect of it very much. One session on openSUSE on KDE reminds me of how lightweight crunchbang is :-D

For people already on non-ubuntu debian systems, I would recommend taking a spin on it.

Re: Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail Released

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Post by legierski » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 11:30 AM UTC

Can't wait to get back from work to update from 12.10 !

Re: Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail Released

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Post by Surio » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 11:33 AM UTC

dumi wrote: post #20

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'm using openSuse. It's fast and stable. Ubuntu Gnome ( http://ubuntugnome.org/ ) is also a good choice, but its not pure gnome as always.

openSUSE: Did you have problems with speed? Or nepomunk? I was eager to have a go when it came out (12.3), and has been a very raggedy experience for me so far. nepomunk constantly crashes, the system is veeery slow (on KDE at least) etc.

Re: Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail Released

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Post by claudius » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 11:34 AM UTC

vacri wrote: post #45

claudius wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

rmadison claims that it is only in sid, which is an important distinction, as current testing will soon be released as Wheezy.

A good point, though for most techies, running sid/Unstable should be alright on their desktop.

But so should testing – it does offer some stability and the remote guarantee that packages are installable, plus you get upgrades to stable for free at each release.

Then again, YMMV and everybody is probably better off making their own decision here :)

Re: Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail Released

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Post by niggler » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 11:36 AM UTC

What happens after the Z release (coming up in 5 years)?