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Canonical To Release Ubuntu Linux 16.04 LTS 'Xenial Xerus' Tomorrow (betanews.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Canonical announced today that it will be releasing Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on Thursday, April 21. The sixth major release of Ubuntu Long-Term Support (LTS) features the new 'snap' package format and LXD pure-container hypervisor. "The addition of 'snaps' for faster and simpler updates, and the LXD container hypervisor for ultra-fast and ultra-dense cloud computing demonstrate a commitment to customer needs that sets Ubuntu apart as the platform for innovation and scale," said Dustin Kirkland who leads platform strategy at Canonical. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS introduces a new application format, the 'snap', which can be installed alongside traditional deb packages. The snap format is much easier to secure and much easier to produce, and offers operational benefits for organizations managing many Ubuntu devices, which will bring more robust updates and more secure applications across all form factors from phone to cloud.
Look on the bright side - two more and they'll be out of letters.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
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Thursday, April 21....where? Can't we just do it in UTC. It is Thursday, April 21 in New Zealand (18.23% PURE and dropping) already but there is no release. Is the date based on South Africa? U.S.?
I reserve the write to mangle english.
Who is retarded enough to use Ubuntu??? It's not even Linux anymore. For me, it's like Windows XP made in Jamaica. Enough said. Wanna a good distro??? MAKE YOUR SELF ONE MOTHERFUCKER!@&$#@
Oh yeah, one of the reasons I don't mind my marital stattus is your excuse to have to like penises "oh, I found out tht I have an uterus" Fuck You dude,
for MySQL and MongoDB are still broken along with a few others.
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just 2 more letters and this naming crap will die?
I may be asking too much here, but I would love to know what people think of 16.04 from a real-world, practical perspective. What can you do with it that you couldn't with previous versions? What, in your opinion, has improved? Any issues? For example, I haven't been keeping a close eye, so this is the first time I've heard of this new snap system. Is it any good?
But I suspect the forum will just be filled with the usual "systemd sux!" and "pulseaudio sux" and "I can't stand Unity, and Shuttleworth is an asshole, use linux mint or instead!"
But here's hoping for a civil discussion for once.
It looks like the dev team has been waffling about whether or not ship 16.04 with Unity 8 (which under the hood, dumps Gnome for Qt) as well as Mir. Has anyone tried it out since the rocky betas I looked at in 15.x? Does anyone know what the defaults or plans are from the good folk at Ubuntu?
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And how/why is it better than deb/rpm/tgz?
I found this: https://insights.ubuntu.com/20... but is it full of marketing speak without any real information as to what a snap actually is and how it is better. Sounds kind of like Canonical doing the not-invented-here thing for packaging.
Being that Ubuntu is one of the more popular distributions, that means is must be hated on slashdot. Granted it is one of the distributions that comes with a good selection of drivers available. As well decent defaults for standard desktop usage.
Would I use it for a server? No, but for an OS on my laptop for standard stuff and some development. I have no complains at least with the last version. It is much easier to deal with than Windows 10.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
If so, count me out. I prefer my Unix to be Unix, and not Windows.
I know this is probably too much to ask, but I am really hoping that people who have poked at it can give constructive, practical comments on what they think of the new version. I haven't been paying attention cause I'm too busy. I'm looking forward to zfs-on-linux, but this is the first time I've ever heard of this new snap package system. Is it any good? Any gotchas?
Have there been any notable improvements? Anything you can do now that you couldn't before (eg: is it easier to manage multiple displays, or digital audio) ?
But I expect the forum will just be drowned in a bajillion posts about how systemd sucks, pulseaudio sucks, shuttleworth sucks, unity sucks, etc.
It includes ZFS as a standard supported file system. That's the most interesting new feature from my perspective.
I have written a truly remarkable program which this sig is too small to contain.
Last time I checked, I couldn't use F11 to full-screen Gnome Terminal and then F11 to get it back to it's original size. Advanced feature I know, but I use the terminal a lot!
And that's what I really really really fucking hate about Ubuntu LTS releases... so much stuff is broken, and never actually get's fixed. So I wind up having to faff with PPAs afterwards and then hoping that the next LTS will have things fixed.
It should be supported 1 more year, at least for servers. Then it's time to make a decision.
I apologize for the lack of a signature.
16.10:
Yammering Yobbo.
"Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I'm fucked."; ~ Donald J. Trump
An AC said: "Which could get Canonical into hot water with the GPL."
Whether or not this is a licence violation depends on Linus Torvalds and The Linux Foundation. They are the ones that set the terms for how Linux is licensed. Under U.S. law at least, it's the copyright owner's intent that matters, and not some third party interpretation interpretation of the licence text.
Torvalds has previously stated that a kernel module can't violate the kernel licence agreement unless it is a derivative work of the kernel (and the module licence violates the GPL). At the very least, it needs to have been designed with knowledge of the Linux internals. Since ZFS was developed independent of Linux, it seems unlikely that The Linux Foundation will be suing Canonical.
If you want to thoroughly understand the issues, you could read Eben Moglen's opinion (he's the lawyer behind the GPL 3): https://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2016/linux-kernel-cddl.html
I have written a truly remarkable program which this sig is too small to contain.
It should be supported 1 more year, at least for servers. Then it's time to make a decision.
Devuan is over that way....
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It should be supported 1 more year, at least for servers. Then it's time to make a decision.
April 2014 was the time to make the decision. If you're not in the testing phase for systemd or an alternate distro at this point you're not doing your job.
Nope, 14.04 uses upstart.
I just opened a terminal & pressed F11. It full screened.
root@server:~# gnome-terminal --version
GNOME Terminal 3.16.2
root@server:~# cat
Ubuntu 15.10 \n \l
My pics.
Or whatever, and what are they going to do after that? It is almost as ominous as naming generations of humans after the last few letters of the alphabet....
A typical developer's bullshit response. First, the GP talked about hitting F11 a second time to unfull screen it. That's were the problem is and you didn't test that. Second, if you look at the bug report it's talking about dual monitors.
LXD container hypervisor for ultra-fast and ultra-dense cloud computing demonstrate a commitment to customer needs that sets Ubuntu apart as the platform for innovation and scale
15 years after BSD had Jails, and still managed to fail at the important parts. At least everything seems to work, until it doesn't.
Mangy Manx
Never had to spend time configuring Manjaro unless I wanted too.
I hear that Xerotic Xenu will be the name of the volcanic release.
As the AC said, it's when pressing F11 again that it fails to restore back to it's original window size.
It should be supported 1 more year, at least for servers. Then it's time to make a decision.
April 2014 was the time to make the decision. If you're not in the testing phase for systemd or an alternate distro at this point you're not doing your job.
I'm not a sysadmin any more, i just run my own toy servers. There ain't much to evaluate for those.
I apologize for the lack of a signature.
sudo apt install linux-generic-lts-xenial
Woot!