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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin Beta 1 Released

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donadony writes with news about what will become the next LTS release of Ubuntu. From the article: "It's time to take another look at what is happening with the development of Ubuntu 12.04. As it stands, the first Beta of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin has been released. I just updated my own system. What changed since Alpha? Not much, really. In fact, there's really nothing groundbreaking or any new features added. Unity has been updated to version 5.4.0 which also sees the introduction of the new HUD feature. HUD still apparently has many outstanding bugs, but developers maintain that all bugs will be ironed out before Ubuntu 12.04 goes gold. Also added were recommendations to Ubuntu software center, and a new tool called 'privacy' and other small new features."

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  1. All bugs? by busyqth · · Score: 5, Insightful

    developers maintain that all bugs will be ironed out before Ubuntu 12.04 goes gold

    Good luck with that.

    1. Re:All bugs? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      And this will be accomplished by re-designating all "Major" bugs to "Minor" 48 hours before Gold Date.

      We cut out the hard part and pass the savings on to us!

    2. Re:All bugs? by devphaeton · · Score: 5, Funny

      I would love a better KDE distro, but it has to use the Debian package management system and have huge respositories.
      Any suggestions?

      How about Debian? It uses the Debian package management system and has huge repositories.

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  2. Right by TheSpoom · · Score: 5, Insightful

    All I know is, I'm waiting for the reviews before updating this time. Most likely I'll be on Mint pretty soon anyway. Unity gave me a severe distaste for anything Canonical.

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  3. Too early, wrong server by JRiddell · · Score: 5, Informative

    Hi, I'm the release driver for Beta 1.

    Ubuntu Beta 1 is not released yet and will not be released until posted to ubuntu-announce. Until then we might pull the images if we find problems.

    This slashdot story is also weirdly linking to the wrong server for Ubuntu, cdimage has only DVDs and other obscure images for Ubuntu, almost everyone will want the CDs. You can find the link to those on the release announcement when it is posted.

  4. Re:AND it's no longer relevant. by emblemparade · · Score: 5, Informative

    The funding amounted to paying one single Canonical employee to work specifically on Kubuntu.

    Kubuntu is remaining an official Ubuntu variant and will continue to be updated by the community. Moreover, bugs to the KDE package (which is part of the main repository) will continue to be fixed by anyone at Canonical, and patches will continue to be sent upstream.

    The "drop funding" issue has been blown out of proportion.

  5. Re:AND it's no longer relevant. by JRiddell · · Score: 5, Informative

    Please stay with us. I will be making an announcement soon which will explain how Kubuntu will continue after 12.04 just as it did for 11.10 (when Canonical also did not fund anyone to work on it).

  6. Pfft! Preposterous! by grahamd0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Canonical has lost all respect from me by passing on the opportunity to call their release "Pretty Pony".

    Some people just have no class.

  7. Re:AND it's no longer relevant. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You sure showed them! You dropped Kubuntu because it would only be maintained by the community in favor of a distro that would only be maintained by the community .

  8. Re:AND it's no longer relevant. by PraiseBob · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I think that is the point. Mint is almost Ubuntu, but based on Gnome3 instead of Unity. The guys behind Mint care about making Gnome3 work, and Canonical doesn't.

  9. Re:AND it's no longer relevant. by grimmjeeper · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The bugs in unity are not the biggest problem people have with Ubuntu and Unity. Linux users of all types are used to buggy code.

    No, the problem is Unity itself. It's a UI that just doesn't appeal to many Linux users. Some people love it. Sure. But a lot of us can't stand all of the crap and bloat that has infected user interfaces over the years. A lot of us want a simple and clean interface that stays out of the way. I want to be able to fire up a browser or three, my IDE, my email, a file manager, and once in a while a terminal or two. I want simple buttons and menus and a UI that lets me move windows around without all sorts of flashy special effects that get in the way. I want a couple of "desktops" so that I can leave my development area as it is while I type up a document on a word processor.

    I'm not running a tablet. I don't need my UI to act like one. I have a full keyboard and mouse and I'm doing real work with real programs. I want a simple interface that lets me do that. For me, Linux Mint gives me all of what was great about Ubuntu but with a UI that I can tailor to my liking. I fire up my desktop with MATE, which is still a little buggy, and I get things done.

    If you like Unity, go ahead and use it. But for people who like KDE and the old GNOME 2.x UI, Ubuntu has driven itself into irrelevance.

  10. Kubuntu and KDE by JRiddell · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here is the announcement from Kubuntu that confirms we will carry on for 12.04 and thereafter just as we did before. There are other sponsors of Kubuntu besides Canonical and a thriving contributor community.

  11. Re:AND it's no longer relevant. by grimmjeeper · · Score: 5, Insightful

    all due respect, i am running 10.10 netbook remix (first test of unity), and i currently have 3 browsers open, 3 terminals, a photo-editing app (darktable is pretty damn good these days) which i compile myself, plus skype, and occasionally dosbox'd doom2 and carmageddon.

    the interface will get out of your way if you hit f11.

    just sayin'. unity is certainly not perfect, but i use the sidebar more often than not. some stuff i'll launch from a terminal.

    If you like Unity, great. Use it. But for a lot of us, we don't want to have a side bar. We don't want all of these tablet like "features". We don't want to have to hit F11 for the UI to get out of the way. We want the UI to be out of the way as a matter of design. So for us, Ubuntu is irrelevant. But that doesn't mean you have to do what we do.

  12. There's always an alternative.... by couchslug · · Score: 5, Funny

    http://www.debian.org/

    I think it's a fork of Ubuntu or something.

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