{"id":230,"date":"2012-12-08T09:20:12","date_gmt":"2012-12-08T14:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nccomputertech.com\/?p=230"},"modified":"2012-12-08T09:20:12","modified_gmt":"2012-12-08T14:20:12","slug":"ubuntu-linux-13-04-hits-alpha-but-details-are-under-wraps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nccomputertech.com\/techtalk\/2012\/12\/08\/ubuntu-linux-13-04-hits-alpha-but-details-are-under-wraps\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu Linux 13.04 hits alpha, but details are under wraps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2019207\/ubuntu-linux-13-04-hits-alpha-but-details-are-under-wraps.html\"><img src='http:\/\/nccomputertech.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/ubuntu20stacked20log-100005231-medium.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even as Ubuntu Linux 12.10 \u201cQuantal Quetzal\u201d continues to make headlines following its release back in October, work is proceeding in earnest on its successor, Ubuntu 13.04 \u201cRaring Ringtail.\u201d<br \/>\nOn Thursday, in fact, version 13.04 of the popular Linux distribution entered alpha\u2014a stage that typically gives fans of the open source operating system an early glimpse at what&#8217;s to come.<br \/>\nThis time around, however, it&#8217;s only users of Edubuntu and Kubuntu\u2014the flavors offering an education focus and a default KDE desktop, respectively\u2014that get a full sneak peek. For those of us who choose the core desktop Ubuntu package, feature details are still under wraps.<br \/>\n&#8216;We won&#8217;t talk about them&#8217;<br \/>\nUbuntu fans may recall that\u2014in a break from how things have been done in the past\u2014the Ubuntu 13.04 development cycle will see some details kept secret until the software&#8217;s release, as Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth announced back in October.<br \/>\n\u201cWhile we won\u2019t talk about them until we think they are ready to celebrate, we\u2019re happy to engage with contributing community members that have established credibility (membership, or close to it) in Ubuntu, who want to be part of the action,\u201d Shuttleworth wrote back then.<br \/>\nDevelopment is being conducted in a \u201cskunkworks\u201d environment, in other words\u2014to the chagrin of some open source fans.<br \/>\nA milestone build in March<br \/>\nThen, too, there&#8217;s the fact that the Ubuntu project has decided to reduce the number of milestone images it releases, focusing instead \u201con daily quality and fortnightly testing rounds known as cadence testing,\u201d developer St\u00e9phane Graber explained in Thursday&#8217;s release announcement.<br \/>\nAccordingly, there will be no alpha release for the main Ubuntu distro; instead, its first milestone release will be the final beta on March 28.<br \/>\nThe other Ubuntu flavors are exempted from this decision, however\u2014thus the release of the Edubuntu and Kubuntu alphas this week.<br \/>\nTo see what&#8217;s going on, you can always check out the main Ubuntu&#8217;s latest daily builds, of course. True alpha releases, meanwhile, can now be downloaded for both Edubuntu and Kubuntu.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2019207\/ubuntu-linux-13-04-hits-alpha-but-details-are-under-wraps.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ubuntu Linux 13.04 hits alpha, but details are under wraps | PCWorld<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even as Ubuntu Linux 12.10 \u201cQuantal Quetzal\u201d continues to make headlines following its release back in October, work is proceeding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[620,772,778],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-software","tag-linux-2","tag-open-source","tag-operating-systems"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/papNkV-3I","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9655,"url":"https:\/\/nccomputertech.com\/techtalk\/2021\/03\/09\/fuquay-varina-and-holly-springs-computer-repair\/","url_meta":{"origin":230,"position":0},"title":"Fuquay Varina and Holly Springs Computer Repair","author":"NCCT","date":"March 9, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Welcome to our blog. 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