Showing posts with label Saucy Salamander. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Saucy Salamander. Show all posts
Saturday, October 17, 2015
Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander End Of Life: July 17, 2014
Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander) reached end of life today. That means that if you use Ubuntu 13.10, you should upgrade to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Long Term Support). That's because after July 17, 2014, "Ubuntu Security Notices will no longer include information or updated packages for Ubuntu 13.10".
It's also important to mention that PPA maintainers will no longer be able to upload packages for Ubuntu 13.10 soon.
Ubuntu 13.10 was the second release which had a 9 month support cycle, after Ubuntu 13.04. Previously, non-LTS releases were supported for 18 months, that's why, for example, Ubuntu 13.04 reached end of life before Ubuntu 12.10.
As a reminder, the only supported Ubuntu releases are now: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (supported until April 2019), Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (supported until April 2017) and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS for servers (supported until April 2015; Ubuntu 10.04 for desktop reached end of life on May 9, 2013). For more information, see the Ubuntu Releases wiki page.
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Ubuntu 13.10 Will Not Use XMir By Default
Canonical has decided not to switch to Xmir by default for Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander.
Back in June, it was decided to use Mir + Xmir by default in Ubuntu 13.10 (for open source drivers only) but that will no longer happen "due to some outstanding technical difficulties". A native Mir + Unity 8 will still be used for Ubuntu Touch so that's not affected by this decision.
According to a post on the Ubuntu-devel mailing list, the issues are in XMir part of the stack which provides the compatibility layer between X server and Mir - more specifically, the XMir multi-monitor support which doesn't work "to the extend we’d like to see it for all of our users".
"We always planned to ship Mir + XMir on Ubuntu 13.10 Desktop but after months of furious XMir development we needed to make a judgement call about whether we could assure a quality overall Ubuntu Desktop experience with XMir across all supported configurations. While Mir is in good shape for this and XMir is close, we didn’t feel that the user experience around XMir's multimonitor feature was meeting the parity standard."
A Q&A about this on the Ubuntu wiki mentions that the recent revert from Intel (the Intel Xorg driver got XMir support but the change was later reverted) has nothing to do with this decision.
Mir and XMir will be available in the repositories so users can use Xmir if they want, but will not be used by default.
via Ubuntu Fridge, Ubuntu wiki
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