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want a link to Ubuntu 12.10 alphas ?

Asked by sam-c

Ubuntu 12.04 is near but I would like Ubuntu 12.10 ?

Thanks

Cohen Sam

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

There is no Alpha of 12.10. Zero work has gone into it. It doesn't even have a codename

Whyever would you even think there was an alpha of 12.10 out!?? Precise wasn't even in alpha until 3 MONTHS after Oneiric was released......

I suggest you calm down and use Precise.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) said : 		#2

"Precise wasn't even in alpha until 3 MONTHS after Oneiric was released......": untrue; Oneiric was released on 2011-10-13, and Precise Alpha 1 was released on 2011-12-01, rather less than two months later. Furthermore, Precise existed and was actually moderately usable by technical people well before that.

That said, aside from this factual error, the rest of the statement above is accurate. I'm the developer who normally deals with initialising new "series" (the archive management term we use for Oneiric, Precise, etc.), and I can tell you authoritatively that it never happens until after the previous series has released. I normally deal with the bulk of the initialisation work either the afternoon of release or the next day, but it can take a few days until the new toolchain is in place and it's open for uploads and auto-syncs from Debian.

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sam-c (cohensam) said : 		#3

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.

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LtWorf (tiposchi) said : 		#4

Try debian sid or another rolling distribution if you don't want to have 1 year old software

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

Or use PPAs. You can keep Ubuntu then....