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after 13.10 dev, becomes stable

Asked by anna koukouraki on 2013-09-21

hey!! i am a fun of ubuntu, and lately of gnome shell. i have a dell 1018 inspiron mini netbook will a two partitioned ubuntus: one 13.04 and a development version 13.10 with a gnome shell desktop on both. My question is that after october 2013 when 13.10 becomes stable what will happen to the development versions? Will i have then to install a new dev 14.04 which will be dev.over 13.10 , or upgrade after 13.10? What happens to those who want to keep development versions ?

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Solved by:: N1ck 7h0m4d4k15

Solved:: 2013-10-02

Last query:: 2013-10-02

Last reply:: 2013-09-27

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Thomas Krüger (thkrueger) said on 2013-09-21:

The development version is being updated contentiously. If you run all the updates you will have the release version at the release date.
Once the development of the next version is far enough you can upgrade to that release with

sudo do-release-upgrade -d

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anna koukouraki (fganko-deactivatedaccount) said on 2013-09-21:

many thanks thomas,but can i ask you how far enough is the development of the next version, since i used a usb almost four months ago and -tested drive an 13.04 iso? What i want to say is that the test-drive an ubuntu, application is a good idea for developers but to be chosen and to stay in use without ever becoming stable.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said on 2013-09-21:

13.10 will be supported til July 2014 but in April 2014 the 14.04 release will be out and it LTS.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said on 2013-09-21:

There are no 'development versions' of Ubuntu. A release is only marked as 'development' if you install the prerelease. Once the development release is released it becomes stable, just like the other supported Ubuntu releases.

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N1ck 7h0m4d4k15 (nicktux) said on 2013-09-22:

Hello @anna

you will find the informations you need in following link

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseSchedule

The procedure as @Thomas Krüger described is correct. Is one terminal command to upgrade to the next available development release (-d = development)

Regards
NikTh

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anna koukouraki (fganko-deactivatedaccount) said on 2013-09-27:

thanks nik and thanks to all.our point is to wait till it becomes stable and then upgrade with -d. but what happens to test an ubuntu drive application which installs the dev ubuntu e.g. 13.10 to computers with non specialists users?thats another issue that what i am saying.

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