Canonical Ubuntu 13.10 Now Available
The latest Ubuntu is now available to download.
Canonical said on Thursday that Ubuntu 13.10 for desktop and smartphone is now available. This release includes a wide range of mobile core apps created by the Ubuntu developer community, including a browser, calendar, clock, weather, and calculator. The company also said that it's working with partners to bring Ubuntu smartphone devices to market in 2014.
"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."
The release of Ubuntu 13.10 also brings the full SDK for developing apps for all Ubuntu form factors. This toolset includes templates and extensions, theming, automatic orientation, and easy to use UI tools for rapid application development. This toolset also supports native and HTML5 development, and a "responsive app design" that, according to Canonical, should make it easy for developers to target phones, tablets and PCs with a single database.
The updated OS also introduces Smart Scopes into the Dash. Simply type any query into the Dash Home, and the Smart Scopes server will determine which categories of content are the most relevant. The server constantly improves the results by learning which categories and results are the most helpful over time.
Ubuntu 13.10 also sets MIR, the new open source graphics stack which supports higher frame-rates, enabled by default for smartphones, and provides it as an option for desktops. MIR promises improved performance in games, with a simplified driver model for widespread hardware support, and better access to the latest underlying graphics capabilities of today's devices.
"The Ubuntu Dash brings content straight to your desktop, searching more than 50 online sources through scopes," reads the press release. "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."
Ubuntu 13.10 is available to download now right here. Canonical is accepting donations, but you can still grab the new OS for free.
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myromance123 Already using it on my desktop. Just like 13.04, it's a good release. Smooth and works well with my games in Steam (unlike 12.10, that was a bad release). The most noticeable thing for me is that my Saitek X52 controller works nicely in 13.10, it didn't in 13.04.Reply -
emad_ramlawi Downloaded it, so you dont have too.Reply
Trust me there is no reason to use it, go for :
lubuntu or lxle = for Windows XP users
ArchBang/Archlinux = Minimalistic O.S, runs fast on anything.
Linux Mint = for Windows 7 users
if you truly insist
use Ubuntu if you like Windows 8/8.1/8.future fails
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megamanxtreme I want a Linux with the Aero-like glass effect.Reply
Also, one that won't be a problem with my UEFI, I heard that some brick their computers because of the UEFI and trying to install another OS (Hackingtosh and Linux) -
gondor If I really wanted to type stuff in order to execute programs ever again I'd go for Slackware (my old-time favorite). If I'm installing an OS with functional and good-looking GUI I'll go for Kubuntu instead - it can be tweaked to look like any decent desktop OS (be it Windows XP, 7, whatever), without Windows 8 level of retardedness.Reply -
nss000 Hummm ... Ubuntu 13.x ? Why should I ever change from U_10.04LTS currently running my AMD965/MSI-gd70 system ... or change from 12.04LTS currently running my latest build XEON.1240/MSI-gd55 ?Reply
GNOME-2/classic front-ends both. Where is my advantage in "upgrading"? Oh yeah I prudently do **not** own an RSA-queered "smartfone". -
rokit @megamanxtremeReply
1. Distributive doesn't matter really, for your glass effect, you can pick any. Then install either Cairo dock + Emerald or KDE(there is even Windows 7 theme if you like one).
2. UEFI isn't a problem and never was. UEFI Secure boot is if you can't disable it in MB. If you build PC yourself you have no problem, if you used build by some company you may have them.
Distros that solved the problem with easy way of installing Linux on MS locked devices(no switch for this function) without replacing UEFI with Coreboot are Ubuntu and Fedora, maybe all at this point, not sure. -
JD88 Installed 13.10 on my main rig as soon as it was released. Decided to finally dump the Windows 8 dual boot entirely and do a clean install. Haven't looked back once. It's not like I had booted into it for the past 3 months anyway.Reply
As for what it looks like, that's a big plus of Linux. Make it look and act like whatever you want. Windows, Mac, a Star Trek panel, a calculator, whatever. -
jkflipflop98 Windows 8 is still way faster, but they're getting closer with every ubuntu release. I noticed that X3 actually runs better under Linux than it does in windows for some reason. Everything else, Win8 is far superior.Reply -
Joshua Lee 13.10 is a good OS, but for me it only bugged out and constantly crashed when I tried doing anything really.Reply