Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S06E09 – The Big Ubuntu
Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore and Laura Cowen return for the ninth episode of Season Six of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!
Download OGG Play in Popup Download MP3 Play in PopupIn this week’s show:-
- We take a look at what’s been happening in the news:
- We catch up with what’s happening in the Ubuntu community:
- Fixing a logo that swirls the wrong way
- A blog post about the reality of sales figures on Ubuntu Software Centre
- Rhythmbox integration to be retired for the Ubuntu One Music Store
- Canonical and VMware to collaborate
- Ivanka Majic of the Canonical Design Team blogs about designing in the open – we’ll talk to Ivanka about this in the next episode!
- Community website redesign
- Bytemark encouraging hosting companies to contribute to Geary email client
- And we mention some events:
- Ubuntu UK Raring Ringtail release party - The Old Thameside Inn, London, UK – 25th April
- Ubuntu IE Ubuntu Raring Ringtail release party - The Porterhouse Temple Bar on Parliament Street, Dublin – 28th April
- GNOME Outreach Program for Women - internships from 17th June to 23rd September - application deadline 1st May
- Hack ‘n’ Talk – London – 29th June
- Young Rewired State – Wales – 6th – 7th July
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Jono Bacon: Ubuntu 13.04 Released
Ubuntu 13.04, the Raring Ringtail, was released today. Go and download it for Desktop, Server, Cloud, and for our Chinese friends, download Ubuntu Kylin. You can find all the details of what is new in Ubuntu 13.04 on www.ubuntu.com.
Ubuntu 13.04 is a fantastic release, and I just want to offer thanks to the many people around the world in our community who helped make it happen. Folks such as developers, app/charm authors, designers, testers, triagers, translators, sys-admins, support providers, governors, docs writers, advocates, and more, all contributed their brick in the wall to delivering Ubuntu 13.04 across Desktop, Server, and Cloud, and continuing to bring freedom and elegance in technology to more people. But this is only part of the story, as behind the scenes, but in full public view, we are continuing to evolve Ubuntu towards our convergence goals. This will be a common theme as we march forward to Ubuntu 13.10, the Saucy Salamander.
I know many of us are tired after a hectic release schedule, so take some time to enjoy the release, get together with other Ubuntu friends, and celebrate Ubuntu 13.04! I will certainly be blowing the froth off a few cold ones tonight.
Ted Gould: Indicators in Upstart
I've started to prototype and lay the foundations for the indicators to use the Upstart User Sessions. It's an exciting change to our desktop foundations, and while it's still very fresh, I think it's important to start understanding what it can do for us. For right now you're going to need a patch to Unity and a patch to indicator-network to even get anything working, not recommended for trying at home.
Previously for indicators the way that they've worked is that a small loadable module was loaded by the panel service that had indicator specific UI in it. That plugin also took care of the responsibility to restart the indicator backend, respawning it if it crashed. While this works and it has created a robust desktop (most people don't notice when their indicator backends crash) it has had some downsides. For one, it makes it difficult to build and test new backends as you pretty much have to restart Unity to stop the previous service from getting respawned. Also all the debugging messages end up coming under the DBus process in ~/.xsession-errors because we were using DBus activation to start them.
With upstart user sessions we're now getting a lot more power and flexibility in managing the jobs in the user session, it makes sense that indicators would start to use it to control the backend services. This comes with a set of advantages.
The first one is that there is better developer control of the state of the process. It's really easy to start and stop the service:
$ stop indicator-network$ start indicator-network and the ever exciting: $ restart indicator-network All of these ensure that the same commands are run each time in a recreatable way. Plus give the user and/or developer full control.
Upstart also takes the output of each process and puts it into its own log file. So for our example here there is a ~/.cache/upstart/indicator-network.log that contains all of the junk that the backend spits out. While this is nice to just make xsession-errors cleaner, it also means that we can have a really nice apport-hook to pick up that file. Hopefully this will lead to easier debugging of every indicator backend bug because they'll have more focused information on what the issue is. You can also file general bugs with ubuntu-bug indicator-network and get that same information attached.
In the future we'll also be able to do fine tuned job control using external events. So we could have the indicator network backend not start if you don't have any networking devices, but startup as soon as you plug in that USB cellular modem. We're not there yet, but I'm excited that we'll be able to reduce the memory and CPU footprint on devices that don't have all the features of higher end devices, scaling as the features are required.
Those that know me know that I love diagrams and visualizations, and so I'll have to real quickly say that I'm excited about being able to map our desktop startup using intlctl2dot. This gives a Graphviz visualization of startup and how things will interact. I expect this to be a critical debugging tool in the future.
What's next? Getting all the indicators over to the branch new Saucy world. We also want to get application indicators using a similar scheme and get a fast responsive desktop. Hope to have a blog post or two on that in the near future.
Sergio Meneses: My testing activities in RaringRingtail
This was a very interesting cycle and the first time when my name appears in the official credits for testing and BugReporters, where I have the chance to learn a lot! (literally) and work with an amazing team: The Quality-Team. In this cycle I also worked especially with Test-cases and iso-testing (Ubuntu/Lubuntu in amd64 architectures)
But I did another interesting things in this cycle!
1- I have participated as instructor in the Testing-Sessions with a small session about Testing on your laptop https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Activities/Classroom
2- I have made several interesting material for this cycle in Spanish: A guide about fixing bugs and work with bazaar http://sergioandresmeneses.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/solucionando-bugs-en-ubuntu-fixing-bugs-in-ubuntu-only-in-spanish/
3- A video about HowTo Start with Autopilot http://sergioandresmeneses.wordpress.com/2013/01/05/getting-started-with-autopilot-in-spanish-video/
Buy not everything was about Ubuntu, I also helped to Kubuntu project doing testing, especially in the Ubuntu Global Jam: http://sergioandresmeneses.wordpress.com/2013/02/23/lubuntu-are-you-an-alternate-tester-help-us/
The Fridge: The Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Scorpionfish. Not.
Congratulations and thanks to the entire extended Ubuntu community for today’s release of Ubuntu 13.04, the Raring Ringtail. Feedback over the past few months on raring has been fantastic – pretty much universal recognition of the performance and quality initiatives Rick’s team have lead and which have been embraced across the platform and the community.
In the work to underpin a rolling release, we made huge strides in automated quality assessment and performance testing. From here on our, I’m going to treat the cutting edge of Ubuntu as a rolling release, because the team have done such an amazing job of making daily quality a reality. That’s a value that we have all adopted, and the project is much better off for it.
Slipping the phrase ‘ring ring’ into the codename of 13.04 was, frankly, a triumph of linguistic engineering. And I thought I might quit on a high… For a while, there was the distinct possibility that Rick’s Rolling Release Rodeo would absolve me of the twice-annual rite of composition that goes into the naming of a new release. That, together with the extent of my travels these past few months, have left me a little short in the research department. I usually spend a few weekend afternoons doodling with a dictionary (it’s actually quite a blast, and I recently had the pleasure of actually knowing what some ponce was talking about when they described something as ‘rugose’).
So today I find myself somewhat short in the naming department, which is to say, I have a name, but not the soliloquy that usually goes with it!
Which is why, upon not very deep reflection, I would like to introduce you to our mascot for the next six months, the saucy salamander.
The salamander is one of nature’s most magical creatures; they are a strong indicator of a pristine environment, which is a fitting way to describe the new world emerging around Ubuntu Touch – new applications, a new SDK, a gorgeous clean interface. You’ll find salamanders swimming in clear, clean upstreams – which is exactly what’s forming around Ubuntu’s mobile ecosystem. It’s a way of saying ‘thank you’ to the tremendous community that has joined the effort to create a single unified experience from phone to PC, with tons of crisp and stylish core apps made by people from all over the world who want to build something fast, fresh and free. And we’re saucy too – life’s to short to be stodgy or stilted. Our work is our play – we make amazing things for a huge audience, we find space for pretty much every flavour of interface and do it with style.
Happy release day everyone! Here’s to a super saucy cycle.
Originally posted here by Mark Shuttleworth on Thursday, April 25th, 2013
Mark Shuttleworth: The Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Scorpionfish. Not.
Congratulations and thanks to the entire extended Ubuntu community for today’s release of Ubuntu 13.04, the Raring Ringtail. Feedback over the past few months on raring has been fantastic – pretty much universal recognition of the performance and quality initiatives Rick’s team have lead and which have been embraced across the platform and the community.
In the work to underpin a rolling release, we made huge strides in automated quality assessment and performance testing. From here on our, I’m going to treat the cutting edge of Ubuntu as a rolling release, because the team have done such an amazing job of making daily quality a reality. That’s a value that we have all adopted, and the project is much better off for it.
Slipping the phrase ‘ring ring’ into the codename of 13.04 was, frankly, a triumph of linguistic engineering. And I thought I might quit on a high… For a while, there was the distinct possibility that Rick’s Rolling Release Rodeo would absolve me of the twice-annual rite of composition that goes into the naming of a new release. That, together with the extent of my travels these past few months, have left me a little short in the research department. I usually spend a few weekend afternoons doodling with a dictionary (it’s actually quite a blast, and I recently had the pleasure of actually knowing what some ponce was talking about when they described something as ‘rugose’).
So today I find myself somewhat short in the naming department, which is to say, I have a name, but not the soliloquy that usually goes with it!
Which is why, upon not very deep reflection, I would like to introduce you to our mascot for the next six months, the saucy salamander.
The salamander is one of nature’s most magical creatures; they are a strong indicator of a pristine environment, which is a fitting way to describe the new world emerging around Ubuntu Touch – new applications, a new SDK, a gorgeous clean interface. You’ll find salamanders swimming in clear, clean upstreams – which is exactly what’s forming around Ubuntu’s mobile ecosystem. It’s a way of saying ‘thank you’ to the tremendous community that has joined the effort to create a single unified experience from phone to PC, with tons of crisp and stylish core apps made by people from all over the world who want to build something fast, fresh and free. And we’re saucy too – life’s too short to be stodgy or stilted. Our work is our play – we make amazing things for a huge audience, we find space for pretty much every flavour of interface and do it with style.
Happy release day everyone! Here’s to a super saucy cycle.
Ubuntu Release blog: Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) Released!
Ubuntu 13.04 is now available for download.
For more information on the release, and individual products that make up the release, please see the release notes.
Howard Chan: Hurray! Ubuntu Studio 13.04 is released!
Yes folks, the official announcement for Ubuntu 13.04 release just went out an hour ago. And henceforth, Ubuntu Studio 13.04 is also released!
So what’s new (or notable)?
* New software in seeds — We added popular applications like Krita and LMMS into our images.
* New wallpaper (Rock theme, by Kaj Ailomaa)
* A rewritten icon theme
* A new shortened support period of 9 months to accomodate Ubuntu changes
* Bugfixes in JACK and Pulseaudio
* Much more!
Here I would like to thank the following people:
Kaj Ailomaa (zequence, Project Lead) for his excellent work and dedication towards the distribution;
Len Ovenwerks (len-dt, main developer) for his hard work on the menus and seeds;
Thomas Toine (ttoine, founder of Ubuntu Studio) for his return and making Ubuntu Studio merchandises progress;
Mike Holstein (holstein, support guru) for his user supporting efforts in #ubuntustudio IRC channel;
Zak Frappan (madeinkobaia, Art Lead) for joining Ubuntu Studio and making awesome artwork for social artworks;
Maik Adamietz (DarkEra) for his testing efforts for the final release;
Scott Lavender (ScottL, ex-Project Lead) for his guidance and work through the previous years.
Well, the below sentence sums all up:
ALL PEOPLE WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED,TESTED, FILED BUGS, AND USED UBUNTU STUDIO,THANK YOU!
Now 13.04 is released, we need a load of contributors for S cycle! (Reminder: S codename unknown). We need people to help, but you don’t need to be a coder or know what Python is (LOL). We have opportunities like artwork, testing, documentation, user support and more. Go to http://ubuntustudio.org/contribute to start contributing!
smartboyhw
Lubuntu Blog: Lubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail
Ubuntu GNOME: Ubuntu GNOME 13.04
The Ubuntu GNOME team is proud to announce our first release as an official Ubuntu Derivative: Ubuntu GNOME 13.04.
Ubuntu GNOME aims to bring a mostly pure GNOME desktop experience to Ubuntu. Keeping in coordination with the Ubuntu Desktop Team, we have decided to stay with GNOME 3.6 for the 13.04 release. Please see the GNOME 3.6 Release Notes for features of GNOME 3.6.
Where to Get itFor the latest release, please download it from:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-gnome/releases/13.04/release/
- Firefox has replaced GNOME Web (Epiphany) as the default browser.
- The Ubuntu Software Center and Update Manager have replaced GNOME Software (gnome-packagekit).
- LibreOffice 4.0 is available by default instead of Abiword and Gnumeric.
Additional information is available in the Ubuntu Release Notes.
For those excited about the latest version of GNOME, we do maintain the GNOME3 PPA to catch an early look at GNOME 3.8. Please ensure you do a dist-upgrade if you choose to add this PPA and not just a standard upgrade or GDM and GNOME shell will not run after start-up. As always, if you choose to make use of any PPA, please familiarize yourself with ppa-purge.
Known Issues- Currently the ‘Install Alongside’ option during installation does not work. (LP:#1164592)
- There are two Online Account enteries within System Settings. One is the GNOME tool which can be used for Contacts, Documents, and Evolution. The other is Ubuntu’s tool for Empathy, Gwibber, Shotwell (and Unity if you install that). (LP:#1040193)
We’d love to hear any feedback you have on our first official release. Please Check out our Community Page to see how to get in touch with us.
Xubuntu: Xubuntu 13.04 is here!
The Xubuntu team is glad to announce the immediate release of Xubuntu 13.04!
Xubuntu 13.04 will be supported for 9 months and will need other media such as a USB device or a DVD to install. Read more below.
What’s new in Xubuntu 13.04?Xubuntu 13.04 is mostly a maintenance release, and there aren’t many new features. However, there are some changes, which include:
- Gnumeric and GIMP are reintroduced on the ISO
- New application versions: Catfish 0.6.1 and Parole 0.5.0 with many bug fixes
- Updates for the Greybird theme and a new wallpaper
- Duplicate partitions are no longer shown on desktop or Thunar
- Updated documentation
Starting with 13.04, Xubuntu will have a support period of 9 months for the interim (non-LTS) releases. To read more about the background for the support window and maintenance changes, refer to the Ubuntu Technical Board meeting minutes from 18th of March.
Also starting with 13.04, the Xubuntu images will not fit on standard CDs. This is an effect of changing the target size to a 1GB USB device. To install Xubuntu 13.04 and beyond, you will need other media such as a USB device or a DVD. The Xubuntu 13.04 image size is approximately 800 MB.
To read the complete release notes including technical overview, refer to the Ubuntu 13.04 Release Notes.
The Fridge: Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) Released
The Ubuntu team is very pleased to announce the release of Ubuntu 13.04 for Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core products.
Codenamed “Raring Ringtail”, 13.04 continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. This release cycle has seen a significant push toward daily quality, which has allowed most developers and users to participate more actively throughout the cycle, and we feel this also shows in the final quality of this release.
Along with performance improvements to Unity, updates to common desktop packages, and updated core and toolchain components, Ubuntu 13.04 also includes the new Friends service, to consolidate all social networking accounts via Ubuntu Online Accounts. Also included is a tech preview of Upstart’s new user session feature.
Ubuntu Server 13.04 includes the Grizzy release of OpenStack, alongside deployment and management tools that save devops teams time when deploying distributed applications – whether on private clouds, public clouds, x86 or ARM servers, or on developer laptops. Several key server technologies, from MAAS to Ceph, have been updated to new upstream versions with a variety of new features, and a preview of the new Go rewrite of Juju is available in the backports repository.
Read more about the new features of Ubuntu 13.04 in the following press releases:
Maintenance updates will be provided for Ubuntu 13.04 for 9 months, through January 2014.
Thanks to the efforts of the global translation community, Ubuntu is now available in 42 languages. For a list of available languages and detailed translation statistics for these and other languages, see:
The newest Kubuntu 13.04, Edubuntu 13.04, Xubuntu 13.04, Lubuntu 13.04 and Ubuntu Studio 13.04 are also being released today. More details can be found in their announcements:
- Kubuntu: http://kubuntu.org/news/13.04-release
- Xubuntu: http://xubuntu.org/news/13-04-release
- Edubuntu: http://edubuntu.org/news/13.04-release
- Lubuntu: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Announcement/13.04
- Ubuntu Studio: http://ubuntustudio.org/?p=726
This release cycle, we welcome two new flavours to the Ubuntu archive, Ubuntu GNOME and UbuntuKylin. For more information about each, see their wiki pages, and welcome them to the family:
- Ubuntu GNOME: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGNOME
- UbuntuKylin: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuKylin
In order to download Ubuntu 13.04, visit:
Users of Ubuntu 12.10 will be offered an automatic upgrade to 13.04 via Update Manager. For further information about upgrading, see:
As always, upgrades to the latest version of Ubuntu are entirely free of charge.
We recommend that all users read the release notes, which document caveats, workarounds for known issues, as well as more in-depth notes on the release itself. They are available at:
Find out what’s new in this release with a graphical overview:
If you have a question, or if you think you may have found a bug but aren’t sure, you can try asking in any of the following places:
- #ubuntu on irc.freenode.net
- http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users
- http://www.ubuntuforums.org
- http://askubuntu.com
If you would like to help shape Ubuntu, take a look at the list of ways you can participate at:
About UbuntuUbuntu is a full-featured Linux distribution for desktops, laptops, netbooks and servers, with a fast and easy installation and regular releases. A tightly-integrated selection of excellent applications is included, and an incredible variety of add-on software is just a few clicks away.
Professional services including support are available from Canonical and hundreds of other companies around the world. For more information about support, visit:
More InformationYou can learn more about Ubuntu and about this release on our website listed below:
To sign up for future Ubuntu announcements, please subscribe to Ubuntu’s very low volume announcement list at:
Originally posted to the ubuntu-announce mailing list by Adam Conrad on Thu Apr 25 12:07:30 UTC 2013
Edubuntu: Edubuntu 13.04 Release Announcement
The Edubuntu team is pleased to announce the release of Edubuntu 13.04 (codename: Raring Ringtail). This release will be supported for 9 months, it is intended for enthusiasts and users who would like to try out the latest and greatest software. If you're installing Edubuntu in an organisation such as a school, university or non-profit, we suggest you deploy Edubuntu 12.04 LTS (Long Term Support), which is supported until April 2017 for both Servers and Desktops. We recently released a point release to Edubuntu 12.04 LTS, bringing updated hardware supported, bug fixes and security updates applied out of the box.
What's New? New Default Packages:- klavaro - flexible touch-typing tutor
- krecipes - recipe manager and collection of recipes
- gramps - genealogical research program
- chemtool - chemical structures drawing program
- fritzing - easy to use electronics design software
- einstein - puzzle game inspired by Einstein's puzzle
- vym - mindmapping tool
- bluefish - wysiwyg html editor
- remmina - connect to various remote desktops including rdesktop
- Unity: 7.0
- LibreOffice: 4.0
- Firefox: 19.0
- Thunderbird: 17.0
- Linux: 3.8
- Upstart: 1.8
- Python 3.3
Edubuntu is a grassroots movement, we aim to get Ubuntu into schools, homes and communities and make it easy for users to install and maintain their systems in educational and non-profit environments.
We are students, teachers, parents and hackers who believe that learning and knowledge should be available to all. Want to get involved? Then please get in touch!.
s.fox: Thank you
Yesterday I blogged about the Ubuntu Forums not being included on the “thriving community” section of this webpage. I’m happy to report it has been added
A thriving community
I would like to thank everyone in the ubuntu world for the support shown to get it added. I feel very privileged to be apart of such a strong active community. I have said it before, but community is everything. When we work together we can achieve so much.
Thank you.
Benjamin Kerensa: Ubuntu Documentation: Call for Contributors!
As some of you may be aware Ubuntu Documentation is struggling right now when it comes to active contributors well maybe struggling is putting things lightly. In any case Ubuntu Documentation Team needs new contributors and I have heard feedback from a number of community members that one thing they felt was blocker to them contributing in the past was that the process to get involved was perhaps too difficult and the existing team was not responsive to those interested in getting involved.
The good news is that there are folks in the Ubuntu Community who care about getting our documentation updated and shipped each cycle and there is now some interest to look at improvements that can be made to the Ubuntu Documentation Team processes in order to make the process for getting involved easier and more friendly.
Currently I have proposed a blueprint for UDS-1305 and I’m confident we will get a session approved and scheduled shortly to enable us to come together as a community and discuss and plan the future of the Ubuntu Documentation Team and define some work items to get things organized better.
So I’m putting a call out to the entire community asking that if you are interested in contributing to please look out for the documentation session and be sure to attend. Even if you can’t commit to helping each cycle perhaps you can just join in and provide some feedback on our processes and suggest some ideas for getting more folks involved during the Ubuntu 13.10 cycle.
Let’s make Ubuntu Documentation a first-class area of contribution in our community!
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Valorie Zimmerman: Dropbox in Kubuntu Raring
However, dropbox stopped working. A quick google later, and by using the code from the GetDropbox site, and instructions on setting up auto-start from Richard's (Nixternal) blog, I once more have a working dropbox, on both test boxes. I use it often to share docs between my computers, and the occasional file with the public.
Quoting from https://www.dropbox.com/install?os=lnx :
The Dropbox daemon works fine on all 32-bit and 64-bit Linux servers. To install, run the following command in your Linux terminal.
32-bit:
cd ~ && wget -O - "https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86" | tar xzf -
64-bit:
cd ~ && wget -O - "https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64" | tar xzf - Next, run the Dropbox daemon from the newly created .dropbox-dist folder.
~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd What you need from Nixternal's blog is the section Configure Dropbox to run at start-up. It would be great to have kfilebox again, but until we do, this is pretty easy.
Jono Bacon: Ubuntu Touch Progress
Ubuntu is on an exciting journey, a journey of convergence. Our goal is to build a convergent Operating System that brings a uniformity of technology and experience across phones, tablets, desktops, and televisions, and smoothing the lines between those devices in terms of interoperability and access to content. It is a bold vision, but Ubuntu has a strong reputation both in terms of our heritage in the desktop, server, and cloud, and with our passionate and capable community. I just wanted to provide some updates on work that is going on in delivering this vision.
There has been significant work going on in building Ubuntu Touch (the overall name for this convergent platform). The team have marked October in their calendars as the goal to have most of the primary components in the Ubuntu Touch code-base complete so we can deliver a fully converged system in Ubuntu 14.04. The Unity team have been working to centralize the different form factors into Unity Next, which you can play with now (weekly updates on progress coming soon here), the Mir team are making good progress in getting Mir ready for deployment on handsets with a technical preview on the desktop in 13.10 (see the weekly updates), and the Ubuntu SDK team are working towards delivering a beta in the next few months. We have also been working with our community to build the 11 core apps (of which three them are already shipping in the Ubuntu Touch daily development image), the Ubuntu Touch code-base has been ported by our community to and working on 40 handsets, with 25 handsets in progress, and across 19 different brands (of which the 4800+ posts in the XDA Ubuntu Touch forum has helped drive this work), and our app developer community has already grown to 1650 members on Google+ with a huge variety of apps in development, many of which we are pulling together in a PPA. We have also been working to automate the app submission process with a series of AppArmour sand-boxing improvements and tooling changes, we have an eight part tutorial series for writing an app from scratch, and have multiple training events and an Ubuntu App Showdown contest planned. On the business side we have seen tremendous interest from handset manufacturers and carriers, and the business team are in a marathon set of meetings across the world moving the discussions forward.
There is a lot to do, but we have an awesome team and community committed to the opportunity that lays before us. If we stay focused, stay on the ball, and take an organized and pro-active approach to problem solving, we could bring real technological change to the world with Ubuntu delivered via the very devices that form the fabric of most people’s lives. Let’s do it.
Kubuntu: Kubuntu 13.04
Welcome to Kubuntu 13.04, a brand new version with the latest KDE software to enjoy.
Getting Kubuntu 13.04 Download 13.04 now or Upgrade from 12.10.For full details of software included see Kubuntu on Distrowatch
13.04 HighlightsJhosman Lizarazo: Ubuntu Raring Logo
I worked from a flat image of Ubuntu Raring, and I was able to generate the vectorization of the logo in this version, do not know if it exists another version, but I want to share my work with the community. As I did above with the logo of Ubuntu Quantal.
Download: http://spreadubuntu.org/en/material/poster/ubuntu-raring-logo
Dave Walker: Back to blogging
After bit of a hiatus, I am looking to do some more blogging. Welcome, and enjoy the ride.