Ubuntu GNOME 13.04

[Matthew Butler]

The Ubuntu GNOME team is proud to announce our first release as an
official Ubuntu Derivative: Ubuntu GNOME 13.04.

Ubuntu GNOME aims to bring a mostly pure GNOME desktop experience to
Ubuntu. Keeping in coordination with the Ubuntu Desktop Team, we have
decided to stay with GNOME 3.6 for the 13.04 release. Please see the
GNOME 3.6 Release Notes[1] for features of GNOME 3.6.

Where to Get it
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For the latest release, please download it from:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-gnome/releases/13.04/release/

What’s New
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* Firefox has replaced GNOME Web (Epiphany) as the default browser.
* The Ubuntu Software Center and Update Manager have replaced GNOME
Software (gnome-packagekit).
* LibreOffice 4.0 is available by default instead of Abiword and Gnumeric.

Additional information is available in the Ubuntu Release Notes[2].

For those excited about the latest version of GNOME, we do maintain
the GNOME3 PPA[3] to catch an early look at GNOME 3.8. Please ensure
you do a dist-upgrade if you choose to add this PPA and not just a
standard upgrade or GDM and GNOME shell will not run after start-up.
As always, if you choose to make use of any PPA, please familiarize
yourself with ppa-purge[4].

Known Issues
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* Currently the ‘Install Alongside’ option during installation does
not work. (LP:#1164592[5])
* There are two Online Account enteries within System Settings. One is
the GNOME tool which can be used for Contacts, Documents, and
Evolution. The other is Ubuntu’s tool for Empathy, Gwibber, Shotwell
(and Unity if you install that). (LP:#1040193[6])

Contact Us
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We’d love to hear any feedback you have on our first official release.
Please Check out our Community Page[7] to see how to get in touch with
us.

On behalf of the Ubuntu GNOME team,

Matt


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[1]: http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.6/
[2]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RaringRingtail/ReleaseNotes
[3]: https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/gnome3
[4]: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/raring/man1/ppa-purge.1.html
[5]: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1164592
[6]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1040193
[7]: http://ubuntugnome.org/community/