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Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander)

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Re: Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander)

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Post by Tobu »

skyebook wrote: post #79
nobleach wrote: post #77

Let me guess. Postgres 9.1, Ruby 1.9.1, PHP 5.3.11, a lot of extremely old packages... Please tell me if I'm wrong! I'm really tired of the software world moving forward and Ubuntu turning into Debian Woody.

The release notes actually say Apache 2.4 and PHP 5.5[1], no mention of Ruby or Postgres though. Postgres runs its own Debian repo[2], by the way :) [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SaucySalamander/ReleaseNotes [2] http://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/debian/

That repo needs a bit of tweaking though: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Apt/FAQ#I_am_using_a_non-LT...

Re: Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander)

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Post by hamvocke »

simonebrunozzi wrote: post #88

So, a user (zeis, don't take it personally) publishes a link to the release of Ubuntu 13.10, but he's actually wrong... Despite this, his post gets 188 points of karma (as of know). Now that's what I call a karma system that doesn't work well. I should just post "Ubuntu 14.04 (Taunting Tiger) released" and get my own share of karma...

Same thing happened on /r/ubuntu as well. It's just plain annoying. This way the real discussion about the new Ubuntu version goes down in the noise of users stating that Saucy hasn't been released yet or doesn't even get started.

Re: Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander)

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Post by leeview »

gw wrote: post #82

I upgraded my 13.04 system this morning and now it is unfortunately unusable. Any time I try to switch users, it consistently brings me to a black screen with a frozen mouse pointer that I cannot get out of, even when hitting Ctrl+Alt+F#. I'm downloading the iso now to try a fresh install.

I upgraded today too and I tried to reproduce your bug: mine didn't freeze but it still raised some errors to be reported to Canonical when I switched back to the initial user. OTOH they fixed some bugs in Rhythmbox (playing music from shared folders over network was very buggy and now just works). Also Unity seems snappier and they seem to have fixed some bugs related to pinning applications on the launcher.

Re: Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander)

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Post by k_bx »

endijs wrote: post #67
qznc wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Quite boring for desktop end users. No real changes. That is probably a good thing, since changes in Ubuntu usually means breakage.

On Destkop there is reason to upgrade if you are using stock software and kernel (as I'm). Unity in 13.10 feels more responsive than in 13.04 was. Pretty much everything is bumped to newer versions. Even things in VirtualBox work faster now (13.04 was installing 4.2.10, but 13.10 is installing 4.2.16). Dont know what is the reason for speed gains - Kernel in Ubuntu or newer VirtualBox. One thing to do after upgrade i…

Yeah, I had to switch to Vmware player due to crackling noise, VirtualBox devs commented somewhere that it's all very specific to hardware and not in their "main focus", so they don't seem to be very interested fixing it.

Re: Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander)

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Post by jessaustin »

kintamanimatt wrote: post #5
rlpb wrote: post #2

No, it's not released. The release is imminent. Ubuntu is developed in the open, so you get to see candidate release images on the page linked. Ubuntu is not released until the release is announced. If you're in doubt, expect to see an announcement on the ubuntu-announce mailing list, or its archive at https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/ Also see #ubuntu-release-party on Freenode. At the moment, the to…

This is the release. These aren't candidate release images. They're just likely waiting until 13:10 GMT to officially announce it. I believe 13.04 was released at 13:04 too.

Every time, these releases get later and later!

Re: Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander)

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Post by rtpg »

a warning for people using Anthy or other IME's : 13.10 replaces some stuff in the keyboard mechanisms, and the dash eats up a lot more keyboard shortcuts (I can't even get Alt+Shift to work! Alt+Shift!). It's frustrating, I somehow got two random keybindings to work and somehow activated ibus (not in the conventional fashion, which no longer works), but I don't know what I did so can't document it.

Frustrating how they can break such an important thing (keyboards)

Re: Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander)

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Post by SEMW »

djeikyb wrote: post #78
cmiles74 wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I call out to setxkbmap to get this done. It should work with any window manager and desktop environment.[0] setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps [0] https://gist.github.com/Spoygg/3122226

Last time I was using Ubuntu+Unity as my main desktop (11.xx), I used `xmodmap` to swap my keys, and found that every so often it'd be reverted. Have you experienced similar problems with this technique?

IIRC I didn't finding any easy way of making xmodmap settings persist over reboot, so I just took had a script that runs "xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap" run at startup.

(Of course then I switched to xfce on my laptop, which seems to run its own xmodmap command after its run startup scripts or something which overrides them, which is kinda annoying, haven't found a nice way to get around that).

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