Ubuntu 15.10 'Wily Werewolf' Released (omgubuntu.co.uk)

LichtSpektren writes: Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" is now released and available, along with its alternative desktop flavors (MATE, Xfce, LXDE, GNOME, KDE, Kylin). This release features Linux 4.2, GCC 5, Python 3.5, and LibreOffice 5. The default version is still using X.org display server and Unity7; Mark Shuttleworth has said that Mir and Unity8 won't arrive until Ubuntu 16.04 "Xenial Xerus." Not much has changed beyond package updates, other than replacing the invisible overlay scrollbars in Nautilus with the GNOME 3 scrollbars.

Phoronix brings us the only bit of drama regarding this release: Jonathan Riddell, long time overseer of Kubuntu, has resigned with claims that Canonical has "defrauded donors and broke the copyright licenses." Another reader adds a link to a Q & A session with Riddell.

Comments

Re:Ugh

[Anonymous Coward]

"How did it become the only real viable desktop distro aside from maybe Mint?"

That's easy. Millennial valley hipsters + money.

Re:Ugh

[Anonymous Coward]

How did it become the only real viable desktop distro aside from maybe Mint?

It was (and still is) dead-easy to install. Even the first iteration had an extremely streamlined installation-process (the less questions you ask, the easier the process) and stellar hardware auto-detection. Coupled with one-click download of non-free drivers it is pretty obvious why Ubuntu became the mainstream-linux.

Re:Ugh

[Anonymous Coward]

How did it become the only real viable desktop distro aside from maybe Mint?

People like yourself who seem to think that Linux has to be hard to use or else it's not cool.

Re:Ugh

[Anonymous Coward]

I prefer Windows 10. It fully supports any hardware and it offers free updates. It's rock solid and all my software just works. The amount of time horsing around with teh OS I've saved would pay the cost of the OS 50x over.

Re:Ugh

[squiggleslash]

It's pretty straightforward. Ubuntu "just works". And it "just works" in part because of the stuff you denounce, like PulseAudio and NetworkManager, neither of which are perfect, but they are designed to ensure that people don't have to "manage" (easily or not) a bunch of config files.

Ubuntu isn't the only distribution with those technologies BTW, but it was the first to really polish and test the hell out of the combined, modern, GNOME/GNU/Linux system to produce something that would produce a usable installation out of the box on almost everything.

Is it perfect? No. Unity was brave but not something anyone is particularly happy with. I'm dreading the Mir/Wayland BS foreshadowed in the summary above. But before Unity, for the longest time, a GNU/Linux based software distribution was the second easiest to use operating system out there (after Mac OS X), and arguably the most productive of the big three. That's why it's popular.