{"id":1019,"date":"2013-04-27T08:10:06","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T20:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2013-04-27T08:10:06","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T20:10:06","slug":"ubuntu-raring-upgrade-boring-in-a-good-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/ubuntu-raring-upgrade-boring-in-a-good-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu Raring Upgrade Boring in a Good Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve messed with Ubuntu for 7 years now, and upgraded numerous machines for myself and relatives. I&#8217;ve played with alpha and beta versions and enjoyed each improvement in functionality and aesthetics. I found it most satisfying when upgrades went well but there were a dozen or so tricky tweaks required to get every last thing working. <a href=\"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/upgrading-to-ubuntu-oneiric\/\" title=\"Oneiric upgrade tweaks\" target=\"_blank\">I&#8217;d blog about them<\/a>. It&#8217;s kind of sad but those days seem to be gone &#8211; Ubuntu Just Works. And it works well &#8211; much better, in my opinion, than the Windows 7 system I use every day at work. It even looks better these days and I expect to be using Ubuntu for a very long time. So a big thanks to Canonical and the community for making it all happen. And just to be really clear, I love the polished Unity interface available in Raring and the direction Canonical is taking Ubuntu.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/sofa_on_raring.png\" alt=\"Raring Rocks\" width=\"431\" height=\"558\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/sofa_on_raring.png 431w, http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/sofa_on_raring-231x300.png 231w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 431px) 100vw, 431px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So I guess I had better switch my focus now to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntu.com\/phone\" title=\"Ubuntu Phone\" target=\"_blank\">Ubuntu phone<\/a> and start playing with that side of things. Hopefully, that will provide another 7 interesting years \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve messed with Ubuntu for 7 years now, and upgraded numerous machines for myself and relatives. I&#8217;ve played with alpha and beta versions and enjoyed each improvement in functionality and aesthetics. I found it most satisfying when upgrades went well &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/ubuntu-raring-upgrade-boring-in-a-good-way\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions\/1030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}