With the great success and hard work Ubuntu GNOME Team has accomplished and done with Ubuntu GNOME 13.10 and as our very first step in 14.04 cycle, here comes Phase 2 of our recruitment plan which we had started in September. The first phase was really successful and the results were amazing. We managed, in a very short period of time, to recruit more than 20 Testers and we do have now our own QA/Testing Team. This success was a push to carry on and start the second phase.

We are pleased to announce the beginning of new era for Ubuntu GNOME Team and phase 2 of our recruitment plan:

Ubuntu GNOME Sub-Teams

As in this video which explains HOWTO Get involved with Ubuntu GNOME, we continue to ask for your help, support and contribution. As always, we seek and need quality over quantity. We have our vision and we are very confident that with the great help of our members and contributors along with the desire and passion to go the extra miles, we can achieve more and Ubuntu GNOME can be one of the best Linux Distributions ever. Why not? there is nothing can stop us to dream and imagine as Albert Einstein said:

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”

We believe it is possible and we can do it.

As always, thank you for choosing and using Ubuntu GNOME and we are looking forward to work together and have fun!

Thank you!
Ali/amjjawad

The Ubuntu GNOME Team is proud to announce the release of Ubuntu GNOME 13.10.

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 3.8 for the 13.10 release. Please see the GNOME 3.8 Release Notes for features of GNOME 3.8.

Ubuntu Announcement

Click here for details.

Release Notes

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SaucySalamander/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuGNOME

Get Ubuntu GNOME 13.10

For the latest release, please download it from:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-gnome/releases/13.10/release/

Contact Us

Please, see the full list of our communications channels

Thank you

To each and everyone who participated, helped, supported and contributed to Ubuntu GNOME this cycle, big thanks to all of you. Special thanks to our testers who did a unique great job to help with this cycle. As a result of all these efforts, we have a great release to be proud of.

Thank you for choosing and using Ubuntu GNOME.

Ali/amjjawad
QA Lead of Ubuntu GNOME

We are pleased to announce the Release Candidate of Ubuntu GNOME 13.10 Desktop.

Codenamed “Saucy Salamander”, 13.10 continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at work through this cycle, introducing new features and fixing bugs.

The release candidate images are known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD build or installer bugs, while representing a very recent snapshot of 13.10 that should be representative of the features intended to ship with the final release expected on October 17th, 2013.

The Release Candidates images can be downloaded at:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/305/builds

To upgrade to Ubuntu GNOME 13.10 Final Beta from Ubuntu GNOME 13.04, follow these instructions:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SaucyUpgrades

Please, help us to test this release candidate and let’s make sure we will have the best release of Ubuntu GNOME.
Thank you for choosing and testing Ubuntu GNOME Final Beta. To help us testing, please head over:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGNOME/Testing

Thank you!
Ubuntu GNOME Team

Hi,

Kindly have a read at this link.

Thank you!

Best Regards,
Ubuntu GNOME Team

Hi,

While we are approaching quickly from the final release of Ubuntu GNOME 13.10, it is very important to carry on with our testing in order insure we will have a successful release to be proud of.

We highly appreciate each and every valuable contribution and the most important help that we do need and seek is helping Ubuntu GNOME Team with Testing the development release (13.10) of Ubuntu GNOME.

If you are new to testing, don’t worry, that is a plus actually. Because chances to break the system are high and that is why we need. Sound weird? not really. The harder you break the system it means the better that system gets and we need to make sure we have a good stable release before the final date.

Please, have a read at: Ubuntu GNOME Testing.

For Daily Build: Saucy Daily Live ISO

Release Notes of Beta 1: Release Notes

As always, thank you so much for choosing and testing Ubuntu GNOME.

Regards,
Ali/amjjawad
Head of QA – Ubuntu GNOME Team

Hi,

Since there were a few pieces of gnome 3.8 that did not make it into Saucy, for the 13.10 cycle gnome3 PPA will reserved for 3.8 components only. As such we have created a new Gnome3-next PPA, this will contain the GNOME 3.10 bits that we consider stable. Gnome3-staging will continue
on as usual holding the 3.10 bits that are not entirely ready just yet. Right now its a little empty, however it will start to fill up over the next week or two!

It is important to note, that if you are using gnome3-staging PPA, then you must add gnome3-next PPA as this will contain required dependencies
for the staging ppa.

Tim Lunn
Technical Lead of Ubuntu GNOME

The Ubuntu GNOME team is pleased to announce the release of Ubuntu GNOME 13.10 (Saucy Salamander) Beta 1.

Announcement

Welcome to the Saucy Salamander Beta 1 Release, which will in time become the 13.10 final stable release.

Thank you for EVERYONE who made this release possible. Each and every contribution is highly appreciated.

The Ubuntu GNOME team is pleased to announce the release of
Ubuntu GNOME 13.10 (Saucy Salamander) Alpha 1.

With this early Alpha pre-release, you can get a peek at what is being done in preparation for our next release in October.

Note: This is a first Alpha version, and comes with the standard warnings regarding using Alpha software. Please see the release notes for more details.

Where to Get it
For the latest release, please download it from:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-gnome/releases/13.10/alpha-1/

What’s New
* Most of GNOME 3.8 is now included.
* The new GNOME Classic Session is also included.
* Ubuntu Online Accounts is no longer included by default.

For more information please see the full Release Notes

Hi Folks,

It’s that time once again. The team has been hard at work getting ready for the Alpha 1 release for 13.10 (Saucy Salamander), and we need your help with testing images.

The required tests can be found at:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/297/builds
Under the heading: “Product (Ubuntu GNOME)”. Be sure to check frequently as each updated build as we get closer to Alpha release will need to be tested again.
Links to download the images are available from the testcases, or directly from:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-gnome/daily-live/current/

If you want more information on how to participate in testing, also check out this article:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/ISO/Walkthrough

If you have additional questions or feedback, you can find us on IRC in #ubuntu-gnome or please check out our Community Page to see how to get in touch with us.

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 for features of GNOME 3.6.

Where to Get it

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

What’s New

• 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.

For those excited about the latest version of GNOME, we do maintain the GNOME3 PPA 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.

Known Issues

• Currently the ‘Install Alongside’ option during installation does not work. (LP:#1164592)
•  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)

Contact Us

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