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05-02-2013, 09:43 AM
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Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail
The latest Canonical release becomes/became available today.
http://www.ubuntu.com/ If you're downloading it today, remember to use bit torrents to help the community manage resources for the first rush. 
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05-02-2013, 10:35 AM
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I partitioned out 20gb to install 13.04 to try it out and it looks a lot nicer since the last ubuntu distro I use 11.10. I did try 12.04 but I found something "better" - Zorin os. I will test 13.04 out and report back here.
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05-02-2013, 10:56 AM
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I liked Zorin too
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05-02-2013, 12:09 PM
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The initial rush should be over since it was released in April, but bit torrents are always a good way to go anyway.
At the moment, I'm still running 12.10. I haven't seen anything in the release that has compelled me to update immediately, but I'll probably get around to it sometime in the next few weeks.
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#6
05-04-2013, 04:38 PM
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Upgraded my Chromebook from 12.04 to 13.04. I let each increment run overnight, so no sweat. I've also got the torrent seeded.
Thoughts are: 1) General polish has been once again taken to the next level. Lots of glass, shadow, and sheen improvements. Some nice new icons as well. 2) Workspaces icon is removed from the unity bar. This is fine since I've never used that feature and you can enable if you use it. 3) I don't use it much because I dock my regular apps and don't keep media on the laptop, but Dash looks pretty nicely upgraded (and faster). I know people have been whining about privacy since your Dash searches go over Canonical servers or something, but then again, most of the people complaining roll their own email servers, so whatever. I use Google, so Canonical is the least of my privacy worries. Other than that, no big changes of note.
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#7
05-06-2013, 09:00 AM
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Upgraded from 12.10 this weekend. Pretty much what ahow said.
It did strike me though, that for anyone who was contemplating dipping their toe into Linux, this should be an excellent time to try out Ubuntu on an old machine for starters. An uneventful release indicates a more consistent environment for learning.
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#8
05-06-2013, 04:53 PM
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Quote:
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#9
05-06-2013, 07:12 PM
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Guess it depends on how old. My approx. 5yr laptop is doing just fine with it.
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