Those of you who are still using the Ubuntu 13.04 operating system, take note and upgrade to Ubuntu 13.10 now!
Canonical has officially ended the support period for Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail), hereby urging users to upgrade to a newer version as soon as possible: Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander). The
Ubuntu 13.04 Linux operating system has now reached an end of life (EOL), therefore Canonical will no longer provide security or critical fixes and software updates for the same.
Officially announced on 25 April 2013, Ubuntu 13.04 was the first of its kind to introduce two new flavors: Ubuntu GNOME and Ubuntu Kylin operating systems. Meanwhile, the 13.10 client has changed very little from the previous version, although the GUI plumbing underneath is in transition. Reportedly, this may be the last version of Unity that uses X.org underpinnings. It must be noted that Saucy Salamander however, doesn't offer much in the way of new features, except for the introduction of Ubuntu Touch for mobile platforms. Further, the support life for this OS is only nine months and the next version, 14.04, will be a five-year supported version.
Meanwhile, Ubuntu 14.04 will feature the latest Unity7 with Anti-Aliased Windows and Full GTK3+ Theming Support. Currently the default Ubuntu desktop is shipped with Unity7, and Canonical has now made it clear that Trusty Tahr will be shipped with Unity7 and not Unity8. It must be noted that the GTK-themes have been using metacity theming engine through the compiz native gtk-window-decorator in earlier versions. GTK3 support has better theming capabilities and gtk-css theming. Now the Canonical developers have redefined the entire theming system based on GtkStyleContext which is entirely based on CSS, in the latest upgrade of Unity7.
You can upgrade to Ubuntu 13.10 here: SaucyUpgrades
Canonical has officially ended the support period for Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail), hereby urging users to upgrade to a newer version as soon as possible: Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander). The
Ubuntu 13.04 Linux operating system has now reached an end of life (EOL), therefore Canonical will no longer provide security or critical fixes and software updates for the same.
Officially announced on 25 April 2013, Ubuntu 13.04 was the first of its kind to introduce two new flavors: Ubuntu GNOME and Ubuntu Kylin operating systems. Meanwhile, the 13.10 client has changed very little from the previous version, although the GUI plumbing underneath is in transition. Reportedly, this may be the last version of Unity that uses X.org underpinnings. It must be noted that Saucy Salamander however, doesn't offer much in the way of new features, except for the introduction of Ubuntu Touch for mobile platforms. Further, the support life for this OS is only nine months and the next version, 14.04, will be a five-year supported version.
Meanwhile, Ubuntu 14.04 will feature the latest Unity7 with Anti-Aliased Windows and Full GTK3+ Theming Support. Currently the default Ubuntu desktop is shipped with Unity7, and Canonical has now made it clear that Trusty Tahr will be shipped with Unity7 and not Unity8. It must be noted that the GTK-themes have been using metacity theming engine through the compiz native gtk-window-decorator in earlier versions. GTK3 support has better theming capabilities and gtk-css theming. Now the Canonical developers have redefined the entire theming system based on GtkStyleContext which is entirely based on CSS, in the latest upgrade of Unity7.
You can upgrade to Ubuntu 13.10 here: SaucyUpgrades
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