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Ubuntu Linux 17.04 'Zesty Zapus' Final Beta Now Available For Download (betanews.com)
BrianFagioli writes: The final beta of Ubuntu 17.04 'Zesty Zapus' became available for download Thursday. While it is never a good idea to run pre-release software on production machines, Canonical is claiming that it should be largely bug free at this point. In other words, if you understand the risks, it should be a fairly safe. Home users aside, this is a good opportunity for administrators to conduct testing prior to the official release next month.
"The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the final beta release of the Ubuntu 17.04 Desktop, Server, and Cloud products. Codenamed 'Zesty Zapus', 17.04 continues Ubuntu's proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution," says Adam Conrad, Canonical. "The team has been hard at work through this cycle, introducing new features and fixing bugs."
"The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the final beta release of the Ubuntu 17.04 Desktop, Server, and Cloud products. Codenamed 'Zesty Zapus', 17.04 continues Ubuntu's proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution," says Adam Conrad, Canonical. "The team has been hard at work through this cycle, introducing new features and fixing bugs."
What's the next naming scheme?
They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
stop using these oxymorons, and things like "pre-alpha-release-candidate" and what not. It's either a beta, or a final.
No: if you understand the risks then you won't run anything mission critical on it, but it won't make it less prone to break. Breakage is unlikely to come because you stress it, more by exposure to some unusual edge case.
I suppose: if you do really understand it you might be in a better position to repair it and dig yourself out of a hole.
I think I will go have a MINT...
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I used to alpha and beta test Ubuntu releases. It can be fun, especially if you have a spare computer with nothing critical on it. I did help find some issues back in the day, that got fixed before release. It felt good. If you have any skills, it can be a cool experience to try.
Ubuntu is the best distribution for all use cases and user knowledge levels. The addition of systemd really kicked things up even another notch.
You may begin...
I've been running Zesty for over a month in VMs and on bare metal with no serious issues. I had one bug that threw an error message on startup several weeks ago, but it was patched within a few days... and the bug didn't seem to affect anything. I don't use the default DE, though -- I use Cinnamon, so ymmv with Unity.
My only issues with Zesty are the same as I have with previous releases. Running IPv6 as dual stack with IPv4 is more complicated than it should be... the Gnome network manager doesn't understand IPv6 DNS addresses so it displays part of them as an IPv4 address instead, and samba occasionally flakes out and doesn't see my windows shares, yet will map to them if I run a script to do so (I don't know what's going on there... master browser issue perhaps, but... doubt it!)
I really can't see much of a change from 16.04 LTS or 16.10, but it runs well, and I have no serious complaints. I've upgraded from 16.04 to 16.10 to 17.04 beta without anything breaking, but If your 16.04 works for your hardware and has repos for your software, you may want to stick with it 'til the next LTS. There's no significant changes in this one to convince me it's a must-have. Maybe the next LTS release if it has more Mir or Wayland support and Vulkan drivers.
Why would that be so hard to understand?
The Ubuntu release schedule is and have always been:
Not once has my Ubuntu installation ever displayed the animal nickname. In fact, I'm running 16.04 and I don't even know what the nickname for it is.
Also, MacOS uses animal nicknames more prominently and confusingly and both MacOS and Windows have confusing version numbering (OS X makes it look like there's only been minor revisions for decades, and Windows has no clue how to count and changes the whole scheme repeatedly).
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You're absolutely backwards AC. I don't care what goofy assed naming convention or garish boot/login splash is used as long as the system is stable, fast, configurable, and suited to my needs. Likewise, I don't care how noble and "professional" the name or logo appears if I've got to reboot lock-ups, schedule coffee breaks for wait periods, and only get to do what the OS's developer decided I needed to do my work.
As always, you're the problem AC...
When the king heard the words of the Book of the Law he tore his robes.2Kings22:11
Title: 'Mir will cause fragmentation in Linux on desktop' - (You be the judge and tell me if I'm wrong.) I personally like Ubuntu and am worried about this step they are taking. https://bugs.launchpad.net/mir...
So they have Alpha 2 but no Final Alpha, and they have a Final Beta but not Beta 2. How hard is it to have a minimum of consistency in a release schedule?
Did they choose this scheme to annoy aspies, or are they just that nonchalant and careless? Oh wait, I've tried Ubuntu so I know the answer.
lucm, indeed.
Steve Jobs is dead. You can step out of the reality distortion field.
Anxious Albatross?
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
They're nowhere near the end. There's at least twenty more letters if you go On Beyond Zebra!
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I don't know if it is still the case, but as little as three years ago I tested various Linux distros for someone else to run on a laptop computer. Stuff that is easy to run and easy to update. I wanted to try OpenSuse. It kinda failed me in that it had obvious bugs. Too many of them. Bugs that could be fixed and all (Linux), but nothing an end user should see. I tried a couple other ones, but in the end, Ubuntu proved to be what it has been for more than a decade: A true Linux for end users. Since I prefer KDE I went with Kubuntu.
Then last year, LXD became the perfect solution for one of my personal user cases. I have been running Xenial ever since (btw. shoutout to Stephane Graber, one of the major driving forces behind lxd), even though I have been a 100% Debian guy for almost two decades now.
I don't know about embedded, but I heard they put something out for smartphones that was pretty rad.
And yes, Ubuntu wouldn't be possible without Debian. I am typing this on a Debian machine, of course.
Well, I guess the latest release is already old... $ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 16.10 \n \l
And which exactly is the animal name here?
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=16.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=yakkety
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 16.10"
My first program:
Hell Segmentation fault
Will Lubuntu finally switch over to LXQt? It's been ages since they announced this, and I'm curious to see if it's better than Debian's version of LXQt...
"Can't you see that everyone is buying station wagons?"
I don't care what goofy assed naming convention or garish boot/login splash is used as long as the system is stable, fast, configurable, and suited to my needs,
well obviously you are not an ubuntu user
As a person who ensures his hands' health, I have to ask, did they finally fix the bugs with mousekeys?
The Bugs are:
1) Sensitivity only be configured through command-line.
2) If you switch a mouse button the speed settings are lost and you need to run xkbset again).
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Until gnome 2 and upstart is back I will stick with Ubuntu 12.04. The best version and last usuable and Ubuntu extended support too. Join us and we can teach cannoical a lesson if we don't cave in
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