Canonical has released Ubuntu 13.04, also known as “Raring Ringtail,” on the desktop. However, the release failed to thrill many reviewers, whose complaints included the point that Canonical had left out several features, including privacy protection and the Windows-based Ubuntu Installer. “In the reviews that I looked at, the main complaints were that Canonical had essentially dumbed down Ubuntu and made it more difficult to customize and personalize,” commented Charles King, principal at Pund-IT.
Hi,
I wrote a little step-by-step guide with screenshots to illustrate the upgrade process from Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal to 13.04 Raring Ringtail very precisely.
I hope this screenshot-guide is of use for those looking to upgrade to the latest (and IMHO greatest) version of Ubuntu :)
WUBI - why continue support for it with Microsoft already setting the date for win7 end of life. Would it really be worth Canonical's time to implement WUBI for Windows 8 and UEFI ?? Why not focus on just getting current windows users to convert to linux since they are going to be forced to choose to update to Win8 or something else???
Also, there's no mention of all the great work being done under the covers with Ubuntu. LXC in Ubuntu is awesome and implemented with more capabilities than I think most other linux distro's.
Ubuntu 13.04 also focused on aggregating support for ARM (anyone use a tablet or cell phone??).
Python 3.x is now included.
virt-manager now supports both kvm/qemu and lxc creation.
note: for people looking at ARM x64 servers this year the fact that LXC doesn't require hw virtualization and thus is much faster than say vmware et al is a plus
JuJu - Canonical's great devops technology is taking a leap forward with the intro of the JuJu GUI mgmt interface and the conversion from Python to the GO language which enables concurrency. Never heard of GO... Google has.
So Reviewers write articles to get paid or to get noticed. Doesn't mean all of them understand the marketplace or users.
I'm not saying Ubuntu 13.04 isn't without issues. Its not an Ubuntu Long Term Release (LTS) ... in any other distro it would be considered a "beta" type of upgrade. But Canonical's been doing a great job of moving to a very stringent automated QA testing that's making even non-LTS ubuntu releases quite good and enabling people to experience new technology when they want.
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Ubuntu 13.04 Emerges to Less-Than-Stellar Reviews
Posted by: Richard Adhikari April 26, 2013 05:00 AMCanonical has released Ubuntu 13.04, also known as “Raring Ringtail,” on the desktop. However, the release failed to thrill many reviewers, whose complaints included the point that Canonical had left out several features, including privacy protection and the Windows-based Ubuntu Installer. “In the reviews that I looked at, the main complaints were that Canonical had essentially dumbed down Ubuntu and made it more difficult to customize and personalize,” commented Charles King, principal at Pund-IT.
I wrote a little step-by-step guide with screenshots to illustrate the upgrade process from Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal to 13.04 Raring Ringtail very precisely.
I hope this screenshot-guide is of use for those looking to upgrade to the latest (and IMHO greatest) version of Ubuntu :)
http://www.maknesium.de/upgrade-to-ubuntu-13-04-raring-ringtail-in-less-than-20-minutes-without-problems
I am looking forward to your feedback!
Also, there's no mention of all the great work being done under the covers with Ubuntu. LXC in Ubuntu is awesome and implemented with more capabilities than I think most other linux distro's.
Ubuntu 13.04 also focused on aggregating support for ARM (anyone use a tablet or cell phone??).
Python 3.x is now included.
virt-manager now supports both kvm/qemu and lxc creation.
note: for people looking at ARM x64 servers this year the fact that LXC doesn't require hw virtualization and thus is much faster than say vmware et al is a plus
JuJu - Canonical's great devops technology is taking a leap forward with the intro of the JuJu GUI mgmt interface and the conversion from Python to the GO language which enables concurrency. Never heard of GO... Google has.
So Reviewers write articles to get paid or to get noticed. Doesn't mean all of them understand the marketplace or users.
I'm not saying Ubuntu 13.04 isn't without issues. Its not an Ubuntu Long Term Release (LTS) ... in any other distro it would be considered a "beta" type of upgrade. But Canonical's been doing a great job of moving to a very stringent automated QA testing that's making even non-LTS ubuntu releases quite good and enabling people to experience new technology when they want.