First thoughts on Ubuntu Raring

Being one who always like a new Ubuntu version to play with, I decided to upgrade slightly before the official release next Thursday.

So far, on the whole pretty good. Not startling changes, just incremental improvements. However, there were two "gotchas".

Firstly skype. There seems to be some clash between skype and proprietary nVidia drivers. The solution is easily applied as suggested here

The second one is CUPS. As of CUPS 1.6 the old CUPS browsing protocol that makes printers visible to other CUPS machines has been deprecated - which is a real shame for those of use used to just turning up and seeing all the relevant local printers from the CUPS server in the building.

After much searching, I finally found that the nice people at Ubuntu had determined not to let this change upset their users, and that the simple solution was to edit /etc/cupsd/cups-browsed.conf and add "CUPS" to the BrowseRemoteProtocols line and then restart the cups-browsed service. My list of printers is now back :)