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Get ready for... Ubuntu 13.10
Cannonical is now uploading ISOs: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/saucy/release/
Who else of you runs Ubuntu as his main OS? Any of you going to upgrade? Who already did.
I didn't help test this release myself due to a shortage of time. In the passed I usually started running the next release after the second or third alpha and then all the way through to the final release. Clean install after that.
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Running 13.04 on both laptop and desktop. I won't be upgrading to 13.10 on the desktop until I encounter software that requires it (nothing in this release interests me.). I'm updating my laptop with hopes that the nouveau is more stable in the new release.
You have a hybrid graphics in your laptop? I'm having frequent nouveau crashes on my laptop on 13.04. It's really annoying. My desktop had it as well, but at least I could switch to NVidia drivers there. My notebook has bumblebee and starts to sound like a vacuum cleaner when it's on its dedicated graphics card.
I use Mint for almost 2 yrs as main OS. So will wait 1 more month after 13.10 is released
I just typed do-release-upgrade xD
xubuntu here on my desktop --with kwin -- , xubuntu there on my laptop , lubuntu there for x2go servers, debian elsewhere, centos on directadmin servers, promox on cluster nodes ... will update as soon as it's ready to go ...
Same issue with my Desktop and an Nvidia Geforce.
nouveau works great for me, except for some programs running wine
Anyone running 13.04 SHOULD upgrade to 13.10 SOON. You've only got 3 months of 13.04 support left.
Anyone running 12.10 has a choice. You can wait for 14.04, which is right at the edge of your supported period. Or you can upgrade now.
Anyone running 12.04 should wait for 14.04, since you're obviously choosing LTS over modernity.
For my purposes, I plan on doing a full apt-get dist-upgrade in a month or so, but I've modified all repositories to reflect saucy instead of raring already.
Then go get a cup of coffee and wait and wait and wait. Then get another cup of coffee and wait. I'm still waiting. How long does this usually take? I'm installing it on a VM so it's going to be even longer.
It actually took longer than all previous upgrades I've done before.
Nope. Macbook Air (late '10) with GeForce 320M card, no optimus support. And nVidia has limited support for the chipset.
I do, it's complete garbage. I can't wait until I have the time to clean this turd off my system.
The UI was designed by a de-ranged person with the mental capacity of a 2 year old dyslexic child. It crashes a lot, that's a good thing in my eyes because it gives me a short period to recover and re-gain my sanity.
A good rule of thumb when Ubuntu releases a new version - don't be the first ones to update. From my experience, it's buggy as hell. I always wait a month or two before updating.
Works good on the MacBook. Desktop is getting entirely too graphic intensive though. One thing you can't call the base regular install is lightweight.
xubuntu ftw!
Those of you with dual Nvidia cards (myself included) have you tried using bumblebee?
I have it running on an EEE901 with 1GB RAM. Not the fastest but does the job.
I'll be waiting on 13.10.1 ;-) Until then it's 12.04 LTS, but 99% of what I do is via ssh or within Chrome... so the OS is less and less important to me.
Don't see the problem with Ubuntu. I use it on both my VPS's. The stripped down versions are just like Debian but without the packages being 75 years out of date
Yep. I have bumblebee and it works well. I used to have 4 hours now I have 7+ on my laptop.
People living in desktop world using X11, many of them gamers, are in another universe compared to people who live in server world doing things from command line and via webmin or whatever.
I uses both CentOS and Ubuntu and not all that different in server world. I put 13.10 Desktop on a VM just to see what all the whining was about with the new GUI. Other then the toolbar being vertical by default I don't see what people are all whiny about. I was able to find everything I need without much problem.
Planning on upgrading from 12.04 to Debian 7 some time.
The year is 2013, the two are no longer exclusive to each other.
Ha! I nuked Ubuntu on this HP laptop last night and installed Deb 7. All display and trackpad issues resolved.
@sleddog Linux Mint Debian Edition?
Ubuntu Queasy Quagmire -> Deb 7
i dont understand
I'm looking forward to upgrading to 13.10 on both my desktop and laptops. Hope it increases my fps in TF2!
My dream is just to run photoshop without problems
Hmpf... Why did they nerf the alternate installer?! I can't do encrypted LVM on a dual boot system (2 OS on one disk) now without jumping through hoops...
That sucks...
Yeah, try running 12.10 on a VM. It's horrible. 13.04 brought improvements, however. But, if you have a fast machine, Ubuntu is fast as well ;-)