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Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander) was released this past Thursday. Normally I jump on the upgrade right away, but I was busy this week and finally got around to it over the weekend.

As with my past few upgrades, it was mostly a non-event: ‘do-release-upgrade -d’ from the command-line, answer a few prompts, and wait. I said mostly a non-event because I accidentally hit Ctrl-C in my screen session and killed the process during the configuration steps. Luckily I was able to run a ‘dpkg –configure -a’ to finish the process without any further problems.

After re-applying some of my customizations to config files (including learning Apache’s new authorization and access control setup in 2.4) and rebooting, I was running the new 3.11.0-12 kernel. I did run into an issue with the Gnome fallback desktop, however, seemingly related to a new “requirement” for accelerated graphics which my Acer “server” doesn’t have. So I switched to xfce4 and that seems to work just fine for the few times I need a GUI.

Version 14.04, Trusty Tahr, comes out in April next year.