Canonical Introduces Ubuntu 13.10

by PantherX on: 10/18/2013 10:42 PM | Source | 39 comment(s) ]

Canonical recently announced the availability of Ubuntu 13.10 for desktop and smartphone. Ubuntu's first true mobile release delivers the streamlined core OS and mobile user interface that pave the way for full device convergence and create a unique platform for modern computing.

"This is a milestone in Ubuntu's history, the exact same Ubuntu OS runs on ARM phones and modern HP Moonshot ARM servers, and provides exactly the same capability as x86 platforms," said Rick Spencer, who leads Ubuntu's consumer-facing engineering. "Ubuntu 13.10 is a full server-grade OS that offers a mobile experience and is lean enough to support mobile devices, kicking off a new era in mobile security and computing convergence."

Canonical is working with partners to bring Ubuntu smartphone devices to market in 2014. The desktop version of Ubuntu 13.10 reflects much of that progress, with scopes that organise home, apps, music, video content, lower device memory and graphics requirements and substantial improvements in battery and memory efficiency.

Ubuntu 13.10 includes a wide range of mobile core apps created by the Ubuntu developer community, including a browser, calendar, clock, weather, and calculator. The apps highlight distinctive elements of the Ubuntu user experience. This release also introduces the full SDK with a complete set of tools to develop apps for Ubuntu devices. It includes templates and extensions, theming, automatic orientation and easy to use UI tools for rapid application development. The SDK supports both native and HTML5 development, and responsive app design that makes it easy for developers to target phones, tablets and PCs with a single codebase.

"Thanks to our passionate community of early adopters and designers we've built a unique experience for end-users and for developers: one UI framework that scales across all the personal computing form factors" said Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and Canonical.

The Ubuntu Dash brings content straight to your desktop, searching more than 50 online sources through scopes. Ubuntu 13.10 introduces a Smart Scope on both desktop and phone which combines results from many different scopes automatically and learns individual user preferences so that search results improve for each user over time. In 13.10, the Dash includes many new search scopes including Wikipedia, Amazon, Google News and Flickr, and can be configured for privacy or specific search preferences.

MIR, the new open source graphics stack which supports higher frame-rates in games and mobile applications is enabled by default for smartphones and available as an option for desktops. Mir promises dramatic performance improvements for games, with better access to the latest underlying graphics capabilities of modern devices and a simplified driver model for widespread hardware support.

To download Ubuntu 13.10, please visit this site.

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bararchy
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#4678313 Posted on: 10/19/2013 08:40 AM

Really nice to see you guys writing about Linux, maybe so benchmarks and tests for Linux would also come one day

twtaylor
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#4678348 Posted on: 10/19/2013 11:04 AM

Do you think they'll come up with a Crobuntu version soon for Chromebooks?

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#4678354 Posted on: 10/19/2013 11:19 AM

Try it today
Not for average user
score for the OS 3/10
the big problem with UI
stupid ubuntu bar on left side that cannot move, unless you do some hacking
when window maximize, control menu jump top of the window
cannot change scroll speed, unless you do some typing in console
and another 20 other problems

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#4678362 Posted on: 10/19/2013 11:38 AM

Try it today
Not for average user
score for the OS 3/10
the big problem with UI
stupid ubuntu bar on left side that cannot move, unless you do some hacking
when window maximize, control menu jump top of the window
cannot change scroll speed, unless you do some typing in console
and another 20 other problems

The reliance on terminal sure is annoying!

Raider0001
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#4678384 Posted on: 10/19/2013 12:35 PM

my problems with ubuntu: installation and partitioning process is stupid (win8 uses 1 partition), no drivers or raw drivers without any options (no equalizer etc), grub is stupid, using terminal for any small change is just wrong, whole UI is just unusable - file explorer is horrible, lack of good software like i don't know a comfortable MUSIC PLAYER, annoying password input when installing software

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#4678388 Posted on: 10/19/2013 12:48 PM

And still no Mir/XMir until probably next year due to "outstanding issues", at least on desktop.

No wonder Wayland people were so pissed when Canonical devs said they (Wayland devs) were slow to make Wayland works properly.
Karma's a b!tch, eh?

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#4678393 Posted on: 10/19/2013 01:01 PM

So the Salamander isn't all that Saucy, by the looks of it.
The last version I tried was 9.10 (Kooki Koala, or something like that).

Raider0001
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#4678410 Posted on: 10/19/2013 01:44 PM

i tried to install 13.10 - at start ubuntu did "not detect any OS" installed itself and after reboot no ubuntu no grub, win8 booted - what a piece of ****

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#4678469 Posted on: 10/19/2013 04:34 PM

This version is not a big upgrade from 13.04 or even 12.10. The apps are updated and it's running on a new kernel. It does feel a bit more stable than 13.04 but that's pretty much it.

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#4678498 Posted on: 10/19/2013 05:38 PM

This version is not a big upgrade from 13.04 or even 12.10. The apps are updated and it's running on a new kernel. It does feel a bit more stable than 13.04 but that's pretty much it.

Mir/XMir was originally planned to be on this release.
It was the only thing worth the wait for 13.10 and then they pushed it back (again), so 13.10 is almost just like a 'Patch Tuesday' for 13.04.

Well at least they have their monetizing tool updated into Smart Scopes so...yay?

I personally use Ubuntu just for academical purposes these days, not a day-to-day Linux desktop.
That role has been exclusively reserved for Mint for almost a year now.

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#4678525 Posted on: 10/19/2013 06:39 PM

None of those "problems" are unique to Ubuntu. That's Linux in general....

i tried to install 13.10 - at start ubuntu did "not detect any OS" installed itself and after reboot no ubuntu no grub, win8 booted - what a piece of ****

Do you have SecureBoot enabled by chance?

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#4678764 Posted on: 10/19/2013 11:40 PM

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#4678894 Posted on: 10/20/2013 06:34 AM

Sound blaster z and recon3d cards have no working linux drivers till now. So any avid linux users buying these sound cards may be stuck without sound for a long time by the looks of it.

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#4678896 Posted on: 10/20/2013 06:45 AM

That role has been exclusively reserved for Mint for almost a year now.

I like Mint cinnamon because it resembles Windows 7 which makes it easy to use but I just can't get it to be stable for some reason

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#4679235 Posted on: 10/20/2013 06:42 PM

For some reason I always wanted to install ubuntu but always ended up with Kubuntu on my systems that have Linux.
I don't knew why but always it was easier for me to understand and use Kubuntu

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