Hey it released and I have spent most of today updating the local libraries computers to it from 12.04.
Changes include
Linux Kernel 3.5.
Support for Grub2 and secureboot allowing Ubuntu to boot even with the Windows 8 secure boot on.
No longer supports CDs you now must use USB drives or a DVD.
Unity cuts support for 2D only mode now 3d has to be handled by the CPU if the GPU does not support it.
Drivers even closed source drivers are handled by the new software updater along with updates.
Plus just other tweaks that improve CPU performance.
Unity also got some other tweaks but no one actually uses it so who cares.
13.04 seems to be a much bigger update and I am looking forward to it much more.
Changes include
Linux Kernel 3.5.
Support for Grub2 and secureboot allowing Ubuntu to boot even with the Windows 8 secure boot on.
No longer supports CDs you now must use USB drives or a DVD.
Unity cuts support for 2D only mode now 3d has to be handled by the CPU if the GPU does not support it.
Drivers even closed source drivers are handled by the new software updater along with updates.
Plus just other tweaks that improve CPU performance.
Unity also got some other tweaks but no one actually uses it so who cares.
13.04 seems to be a much bigger update and I am looking forward to it much more.
DVD drives are common enough already and 12.04 is still available if you really can't use a DVD or USB drive to install 12.10.
Almost no one uses CDs any more and then you compare it to the size of windows its crazy.
With 13.04 they are switching the compression methods for packages that's supposed to reduce size by 20% or so.
Most computers that are still running nowadays came with a dvd drive stock.
Wayland has hit version 1 and xwayland will probably be implemented into Ubuntu 13.04.