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[Bad Haircut]

You'll love this.

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Key parts of Ubuntu 13.04 will be developed in secret, to escape the critics’ ire

In a twist that is sure to raise eyebrows and cause no end of neckbeard scratching, Canonical founder and Ubuntu’s de facto spiritual leader, Mark Shuttleworth, has announced that key parts of Ubuntu 13.04 will be developed in secret.

The reasoning is simple: Ubuntu 13.04 (dubbed Raring Ringtail, after the ring-tail cat/raccoon) will contain some features with “high ‘tada!’ value” (Shuttleworth’s words), and he would rather they stay secret until the big reveal. Judging by his words, Shuttleworth is sick of Ubuntu features being torn apart by critics before they’re ready.

In short, Shuttleworth is upset at the panning that Canonical’s Unity interface received

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How I LOL'd (pee came out).

[Dark Angel]

Sounds like, "You guys are MEAN so I'm not telling you NOTHING! <sniff>"

I suspected Shuttlecock was taking Ubuntu to the mobile arena. Apparently it has to follow what Windows does (screw with perfectly functional internals, make the interface gaudy and unusable etc etc), but I have never worked out why nor do I much care any more.

[ZemaTalon]

I wonder if the next version of Unity will use tiles, and you'll have to launch the settings panel to log out