What's coming in Ubuntu 14.04: Trusty Tahr

While many are still reviewing the new Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy salamander, Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth and the team of developers and canonical is already starting work on the next version: 14.04 Ubuntu: Trusty Tahr.

Mark Shuttleworth set plans for Trusty Tahr, Ubuntu 14.04.

Ubuntu 14.04 will be the next version of support (LTS) long-term operating system which means, and Shuttleworth is aware, that must be stable for business and which will have to be supported for five years.

Many new features introduced in Ubuntu 13.10, as fields, shall be tuned in faithful Tahr. Other features that do not become the full version of Ubuntu 13.10, but did so in the new mobile version, Ubuntu Touch, they will be included in all versions of Ubuntu 14.04. Among them are the updates based on images and Mir graphics stack.

Shuttleworth offered some details about these two features. "Updates based on images", explained, "it's a very important job. For the first time, we can guarantee the integrity of a device running Ubuntu, knowing exactly which version of the operating system is installed. I can't wait to do it on my laptop. Yes, it will be a big change, but I can already see how it will make things easier for me."

As for Mir, "the agenda of the Mir team is speed, reliability, quality and efficiency. That's all. By what I've seen on the smartphone, that Mir is going to be a great step forward for the operation of the game, the duration of the battery and next-generation display capabilities. So thank you for the many contributions we had to Mir and to everyone who is being tested in more challenging than the smartphone environments. I am enjoying it in my laptop and lover of gaming for native Mir benchmarks, ", said Shuttleworth.

What you can expect from Ubuntu 14.04, according to Shuttleworth, will generally be "performance, refinement and maintainability. Shuttleworth also invited developers "Please join us... as we are 14.04 as a platform for long-term deployments in the PC and the cloud and server. In particular, we will provide OpenStack... at 14.04 for LTS deployments, so we need to make sure that I meet the needs of that community by a solid core."

"In" desk, continued, "1310 has benefited greatly from the fact that a team has only focused on improving quality." We will do the same thing again and much more to 14.04. Opposite mobile, we will continue racing forward, the platform is too new for a LITRE and we are thrilled to complete the journey of full convergence. We will not get into a cycle, but given the pace of improvement of the phone and tablet in the last month I think that it will be a fantastic cycle there."

This new Ubuntu, Trusty Tahr, is scheduled to arrive on April 17, 2014. Oh and the name? Thar is a kind of goat - like. Shuttleworth described the creatures as "shaggily adequate, safe and stable. A small population tahr lived at my favorite Table Mountain, and while they made way for native animals, for a long time they symbolized wildness and audacity, perched as they were against the cliffs.

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Ubuntu 13.10: A tour of desktop (Slideshow)

Summary: The environment most new users of all distributions of Linux, Ubuntu desktop has a new, better version: Ubuntu 13.10, spicy salamander.

Install Ubuntu 13.10 consists of little more than return to boot to a CD or USB drive by hitting some keys and drink a cup of coffee.

Steven, aka sjvn, has written about the technology and the business of technology from leading edge PC operating system CP/M-80. SJVN covered by networks, Linux, open source, and operating systems.

Ubuntu 13.10 Review: A great Linux desktop gets better

Many desktop hardcore fans have forgiven yet Ubuntu to change to its interface. Others don't like how Canonical, Ubuntu's parent company has gone their own way with technical issues as working screen Mir instead of the more main Wayland stack. And some people don't like how Ubuntu is the combination of "local" search with Web search. So what!

13.10 Ubuntu launches next week. Here's an early review.

Here is all that really matters. In April 2011, founder of Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth said that the purpose of the new way of Ubuntu was "" bring the joys and freedoms and innovation and performance and safety that have always been part of the Linux platform, to a consumer audience.  It has done so.

Of course, Ubuntu 13.10 spicy salamander, which has gone into its final release candidate stage, is not a Linux desktop that can love a technician for Linux that compiles still their nuclei from the code source. But, it should not be this type of desk.

You have to be a Linux desktop than either, it says that my mother-in-law now 81-year - old can use. From this point of view, Ubuntu has been a success and this final version of a week is more than a victory for those who only use a computer without tears.

To show how had this time, I've been running Ubuntu beta and the release candidate in two test systems. The first test case was my 2007 Dell Inspiron 530S, which is powered by a dual-core Intel Pentium E2200 2.2 GHz of processor. This PC has 4GBs of RAM, a 500 GB SATA (Serial ATA) and a built-in chip Intel GMA 3100 (Graphics Media Accelerator). The second was a 2008 vintage Gateway DX4710. This PC is powered by a processor Intel Core 2 Quad 2.5 GHz, 6GBs of RAM and a 1 TB SATA drive. and also used an Intel GMA 3100 graphics.

Installation was bread eaten in all of these systems. Although I did not want to install Ubuntu on a system with Windows 8 Secure Boot, there are good instructions on how to put Ubuntu on Windows 8 PC and other systems using Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI).

A good new feature installation is that during the meeting, he asked that any beginning of session or open a free account of cloud service Ubuntu One. Ubuntu One is a storage service like Dropbox that comes with 5GBs of storage without cost. The commercial version, $39.95, you da 20GBs of storage and streaming music. While this service also works in hand with Ubuntu can storage from Windows, Mac OS, Android, and iOS.

The first thing that I noticed once I had it installed was that in both of these older systems, 13.10 Ubuntu ran like a top. If you have an older PC of its own and is worried about the expiry date of XP approaching quickly, please be Ubuntu and other distributions of Linux easy to use Mint as well only run on hardware that Windows 7 and up can be found too slow.

Looking under the hood, here what I found. Firstly, the Saucy salamander runs the kernel Linux 3.11.

On this basis, you will find the graphics stack. Although it was to be Mir, in the Mir PC only is not ready for the prime time. Mir graphics stack has also faced much domestic opposition of distributions based on Ubuntu including Kubuntu and external rejection of Intel.

The end result is that Ubuntu 13.10 will still use the old Xorg 1.4.3 default server. You can choose to try Mir if you're feeling adventurous. If you are going to run on a smartphone, aka Ubuntu Touch, Ubuntu will use the Mir graphics stack.

If you are a developer, this is a big problem. As a user of Joe or Jane, you notice it. For example, until the ships SteamOS based on valve, Ubuntu Ubuntu still is going to be the best Linux for gaming.

Above the graphics stack will find the interface based on GNOME 3.8 unit 7. The new interface of Unit 8, emphasizing the use of the edges of the screen to control a computing device, will be used in Ubuntu touch 13.10, but it is not the default desktop.

If really you don't drive, you can easily install your Linux desktop of choice. Or you can simply use another Linux distribution based on Ubuntu like Kubuntu for users of KDE, Lubuntu or Mint for fans of cinnamon for enthusiasts of LXDE. While the Ubuntu with the main unit is meant for new users, you can actually run Ubuntu with any Linux desktop that you like.

When the software for this edition of Ubuntu was decided, it seemed as if Chromium, the version of the browser Google Chrome, the browser of choice open source. That did not happen. On the other hand, Firefox 24 will be the default Web browser.

Other applications will also be familiar to any user of Ubuntu or Linux desktop. Includes OpenOffice 4.12 for the office suite; Thunderbird 24 for the e-mail client, Gimp 2.8.6 for Rhythmbox 2.99.1 as the default music player and photo editing.

The most remarkable novelty to occasional users are smart scopes, formerly known as lens. When the lens was introduced for the first time, all he did was integrate Amazon search with local search results results Dash unit. This feature by default, became finally became optional.

In Ubuntu 1310, when you search with Dash unit will have the option of having your local search not only look at Amazon but in Facebook, Google Drive, Yelp and dozens of other Web sites online also.

Here is how it works. When you enter a search term on the Board of the unit, Ubuntu will try to guess which searches are appropriate. Thus, for example, if I searched "Mumford & sons", will look not only my PC, but for the Group on the Web under the music category.

Each of these categories has several origins, or areas. For example, select the "Reference" category will ensure that Wikipedia; Wordnik, an online dictionary; and Zotero, a program like Evernote that works with Linux, are used for sources.

Worried about privacy on the Web-based searches? Ubuntu has addressed this by anonymity both searches and their results.

Said you still don't want to have anything to do with Web search from your desktop? Do not worry. You can turn off all settings and security & privacy/search. Or, what I recommend is that you take the following steps to use only the search scopes on the Internet with which you feel comfortable:

Open the scope (Super, also known as Windows key + A).Scroll down to the plugins Panel.Select "View X more results".Click the scope that you want to disable.Click "Disable".

Frankly, after some adjustments, this feature I really like. I also like the rest of Ubuntu 13.10.

I have been using the operating system now for several weeks. It worked well for me, as a fast, safe and easy to use desktop.

While the unit is not enough for my personal taste, Shuttleworth has succeeded in making a Linux desktop which anyone can use. Do not believe me? Download Saucy Salamander and see for yourself.

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Ubuntu 13.10 final beta: Ubuntu for smartphones is almost here

Ubuntu 13.10, aka Saucy Salamander, is almost here. The popular Linux desktop just when into final beta and it's on schedule to go final on October 17. While Ubuntu desktop users will be happy to see the latest and greatest from Canonical, the important news for Ubuntu's corporate backer will be the release of its smartphone brother, Ubuntu Touch.

We're weeks away from the next release of Ubuntu, Saucy Salamander.

True, we're not going to see the Ubnutu-powered superphone, the Ubuntu Edge. But Canonical, with the help of telecommunication carriers such as Verizon, has every intention of becoming the number three smartphone operating system — after Android and iOS — in the short run, and eventually challenging the big two.

With only weeks to go before launch, Ubuntu Touch is still having some teething problems (Google Docs). On its reference hardware, the Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 4 smartphones, Ubuntu Touch is working well. On tablets, it's also working on the Samsung Nexus 10; but on the Asus Nexus 7, it's having real trouble. The core smartphone functionality, however, is there.

Developer tools are coming along nicely; the GUI Toolkit is making it easier for app developers. Jono Bacon, Ubuntu's community leader, wrote on September 20: "We are finalizing much of the core infrastructure (SDK, docs, knowledge, support, publishing) I really want to focus more and more on widening the awareness of Ubuntu as a powerful and fun developer platform." To help with this, Ubuntu has recently updated its developers' Web site.

I've had a chance to play some with Ubuntu Touch and I think it has a reasonable chance to be a mobile operating system contender. That said, I'm looking forward to seeing the first real release and trying it out in day to day use.

Moving to the desktop, Ubuntu 13.10 is based on the 3.11 Linux kernel, jokingly known as Linux for Workgroups. It will include the usual Linux desktop programs: Firefox 24 for the Web browser; LibreOffice 4.1 for the office suite; Thunderbird for email; and Rhythmbox will be the default music player.

So much for the basics. Where things get interesting, and controversial, is with Ubuntu's new graphics stack and its built-in search options: Smart Scopes.

To make Ubuntu truly one operating system on tablets, smartphones and PCs, and just to improve graphics performance, Ubuntu has introduced its own display server, Mir, to replace the venerable and slow X Window.

Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical and Ubuntu's founder, is happy with the Mir graphics stack. Others, led by Red Hat, prefer Wayland as an X Window replacement. Even Kubuntu, an Ubuntu spinoff that uses KDE for its desktop, will be using Wayland instead of Mir.

Mir won't be 100-percent ready for Ubuntu 13.10. Instead, it will use Xmir. This is a stack where X and Unity 7, the Ubuntu desktop, will run on top of the Mir system compositor by default, with a fallback of running X if there's no hardware that the Mir drivers can support. Intel, for one, will not be supporting Xmir.

For users, none of this is likely to matter. Regardless of your platform, you'll still be able to watch your LoLCat videos or what have you. For developers, it's a different story. At this point, while Wayland has the momentum, there's still no telling which, if either, will succeed X Window. It's worth noting that Linux game vendor Valve is electing to stick with X in its forthcoming Ubuntu-based SteamOS.

Smart Scopes, formerly known as Lens, will finally ship. When Lens was first introduced, it integrated Amazon search results with local Unity Dash search results. Many users regarded  this as an invasion of their privacy. Shuttleworth defended this commercial search when it was introduced in 2012, but it eventually was pulled as a mandatory feature and it became optional.

Since then, other operating systems, such as Microsoft's forthcoming Windows 8.1, have also integrated Internet search with local search. In this release, Canonical will be extending Ubuntu's Dash searches as well.

In Ubuntu 13.10, when you search with Unity Dash you'll have the option of having your local search not only look into Amazon but in Facebook, Google Drive, Yelp, and dozens of other services as well. Personally, I think this will be a handy feature.

While I'm really looking forward to seeing the next Ubuntu desktop, what's really going to be important this go-around will be Ubuntu Touch. It's this, far more than on the desktop, that Canonical is counting on to bring in the business to finally make it a profitable company.

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