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It’s Official: Ubuntu 13.04 Will Drop Alpha Releases

Posted by hanuca on · 4 comments
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A few days ago was only a rumour, but today, October 31st, we’re unhappy to announce that the upcoming Ubuntu 13.04 operating system from Canonical will have a single Beta release and no Alphas, not even a Release Candidate.

Among various other hot topics from UDS-R, one that caught our attention is the drastically changed Release Schedule for Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail), due for release on April 25th, 2013.

So, what exactly was so drastically changed? Well, first of all there won’t be any Alpha releases. Second of all, the Release Candidate is also gone from the development cycle. Instead, we will get just a single Beta release for testing!

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Comments (4)

kikinovak ·
There's hope, after all. :o)
caitlyn ·
I don't know. Did you read Jesse Smith's review of Ubuntu 12.10 on DistroWatch Weekly? He thought it was a lot like an early beta. At least one person who commented thinks it's alpha-quality. Ubuntu is dropping Alpha test releases, not alpha-quality releases. There is a difference.
Steven_Rosenber ·
Ubuntu release has bugs ... yeah, that's a new one.
kikinovak ·
@caitlyn: I know. But there's also a little irony marker at the end of my initial post. Without any irony: I'm simply appalled at the lack of QA and the frantic rhythm at which Canonical churns out next-to-unusable releases. Sigmund Freud once stated in his correspondence: "I don't have problems with my enemies. It's my friends that are causing me troubles." I guess Ubuntu gives the Linux biosphere a lot of bad press. The first versions sporting Unity were worse than Windows Millennium or Windows Vista, as far as I could tell. As buggy, and as resource-hungry.

It's a sad story, but one can always choose to laugh about it:

[url=https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/ source/gnome-terminal/ bug/1055766]https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/ source/gnome-terminal/ bu...[/url]

Cheers from the cold South of France.

Niki

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