Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Released
lwn.net48 points by lxst an hour ago
48 points by lxst an hour ago
Fine print on coreutils rewrite:
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/an-update-on-rust-coreutils/8...
Ubuntu LTS is still the choice for many production environments and education and learning. As someone with Ubuntu from 2010 CDs, I find it refreshing that modern Ubuntu distros work OOB on most computers these days with excellent driver support.
What should I use if I like Ubuntu but not snap, just Debian? Or are there alternatives around? Seems like Ubuntu has the best hardware and driver support so just curious what's new in Linux land.
I distro hopped for a while and settled on Linux mint. Uses flat packs. Hits the spot for easy to use and easy to maintain without needing to use terminal scripts to get things my way. Just my opinion.
Debian is great, and is where the distro development actually happens. What doesn't it do that you want?
Also green light for Fedora 44 release on 28 April
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/meeting_matrix_fedoraproje...
Hard to get some spotlight for this with all these new models around, I feel bad for Canonical.
The comments there note there is no official Ubuntu MATE release for the first time since Ubuntu 15 (and before 14.04 gnome2 was an option). That's a shame but probably most people who chose MATE (or gnome2) no longer chose Ubuntu due to the conflicting ideologies inherent in the two. MATE users generally don't like change for change's sake.
its in the daily builds. I haven't tried it yet, the last release I was happy with was 22.04 (but I also haven't settled on another distribution to go on to from here, so I'm just going to stay on 24.04) not sure if this confirms the impression you have there... its not so much that I loathe change, its been more that I have weird acpi/battery bugs and frequent crashes and I'm hesitant to trust upgrades now.
I have a couple VPS I had to roll back that can't even go past 22.04 without something catastrophic in the upgrade.
> TPM-backed full-disk encryption
This is going to be very useful for servers hosted in third party DCs.
The beta installer was completely unsuccessful in setting the TPM-backed disk encryption on both a ThinkPad X1 Carbon (Intel 258V) and a ThinkPad P14s (AMD 300-something). Hopefully they ironed that part out in the release, but it seems still early for this feature (at least for my comfort level).