13.10 alpha

[Colin Law]

On 1 August 2013 17:58, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> Two small questions.  Not important, I'm just curious.
>
> The Ubuntu web page for the alpha version seems to offer many things
> but not what I'd expect.
>
> There are Alpha 1 builds for Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Xubuntu etc. - all the
> official remixes, pretty much - but *not* for Ubuntu itself. That in
> itself seemed odd.
> http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2013/06/27/13-10-saucy-salamander-alpha-1-released/
>
> Also, there's already a page up for Alpha 2 but again just the
> remixes. (Yesterday, this seemed to be just a source disk image, no
> binaries.)
> http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2013/07/25/13-10-saucy-salamander-alpha-2-available/
>
> I tried using a daily build instead, from here:
> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/
>
> The result seems to work fine on casual inspection but uses X.org, not
> Mir. Does it fall back to X if one's GPU is unsupported or something?

The unflavoured (tasteless?) Ubuntu is not being released as alpha
versions, there is just the daily build for the moment.  I believe
that Mir is not yet incorporated into the daily build.

Colin