Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail: An Impatient Lemur Aiming for Mobile Platforms

The name of the next Ubuntu release has become known. Raring - impatient, thirsty, full of desire. Ringtail - which one, ring-tailed raccoon, ring-tailed lemur or another half dozen animals with a long curled tail. Mark Shuttleworth wrote in his blog that the main focus in the next two semiannual cycles remaining until the beginning of the active development of the LTS release 14.04 will be on tablets, smartphones and televisions.

“It's time to look at the core of Ubuntu through the prism of mobile devices: the key metrics should be battery life, number of running processes, memory consumption,” he writes and invites all developers traveling to the Copenhagen summit on October 29 to take the Nexus 7 with them sample platform for which you will need to sharpen the next release.

By the way, the upcoming version of the Linux 3.7 kernel is moving in the same direction . Developers are going to get serious about supporting the ARM architecture so that the core out of the box works with most ARM-based SoCs.