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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Will Ship With Linux Kernel 4.4 LTS

Posted by timothy on from the up-the-ranks dept.

prisoninmate writes: The current daily build of the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) remains based on the Linux 4.2 kernel packages of the stable Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) operating system, while the latest and most advanced Linux 4.3 kernel is tracked on the master-next branch of the upcoming operating system. In the meantime, the Ubuntu Kernel Team announced plans for moving to Linux kernel 4.4 for the final release of the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating system.

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  1. Re: systemD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    systemd works just fine for casual desktop users. Of course on servers, swallowing stderr and a lot of syslog messages makes it a pain.

  2. Re:But will unity suck any less? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Same experience here. I was KDE only but after using Unity for a while (since 14.04 IIRC), I think it's one of the best (if not the best) UI for a desktop.

    My only complain are notifications. Not being able to interact with them is just plain stupid.

  3. Re:But will unity suck any less? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Just install Xubuntu or MATE and don't worry about it. XFCE has advanced far enough to be a suitable replacement for MATE and is less resource hungry.

    Even the crap GNOME3 is better than Unity.

    KDE is the only "full" DE that doesn't kill OpenGL performance though. I don't care for it though, it's always been so buggy (does QT breed bad code or something? QT apps tend to be the buggiest). The only other alternative is to run something like OpenBox as the XFCE or MATE window manager, that keeps OGL performance where it should be.

  4. Re:systemD by gQuigs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sure. systemd is fine. People hate change. Hate is louder than praise.

    I like it.