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Ubuntu 17.04 'Zesty Zapus', Featuring Unity, Now Available To Download (betanews.com)
Brian Fagioli, writing for BetaNews: Ubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" is available for download. No, this is not an Alpha or Beta, but an official stable version of the Linux-based operating system. Unfortunately, the release is a bit tainted -- it uses Unity as the official desktop environment, which Canonical has announced will be killed. Not to mention, there has been some controversy regarding some comments by Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth. Just yesterday, the CEO of Canonical announced she is leaving the position. With all of the aforementioned controversy and chaos, it is understandably hard to get too excited for "Zesty Zapus," especially as this is not a long term support version. With that said, if you are an existing Ubuntu user that likes Unity, this is certainly a worthwhile upgrade if you are OK with the shorter support. Unity may no longer have a future, but version 7 will continue to be supported -- for a while, at least.
Stay away.
The only versions of Ubuntu that have ever been worth installing are even numbered versions that end .04
I'm god, but it's a bit of a drag really...
It's a trap!
It is by my will alone my thoughts acquire motion; it is by the juice of the coffee bean that the thoughts acquire speed
The website the summary points to is a cluster-fuck of ads, pop-ups and video on auto-play. It also contains no useful information about the release.
Do yourself a favor, and check the official page https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ZestyZapus/ReleaseNotes.
I just realized they used the last letter of the alphabet
The original article was very poorly done. Ubuntu is not 'tainted'. The CEO had already had her tenure extended beyond the originally envisioned 5 years, and she and Mark had been talking about the transition for quite some time, deciding that now was the time. There is no 'controversy and chaos'.
Brian Fagioli is a tabloid hack, just trying to stir up drama that isn't there, which is what so much tech reporting is about these days. I am coming to really hate the 'tech press'. ...
If you run Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
Just to put some clarity around "Unity may no longer have a future, but version 7 will continue to be supported -- for a while, at least."
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releas...
That didn't sound like Zesty Popazit.
That picture is bizarre. She looks like a very happy ponygirl.
Why does everything need to a controversy these days? Why are people in such a hair trigger emotion state all the time that any little thing results in an extreme frothing at the mouth reaction? Is society loosing the ability to have calm rational discussions and respectful disagreement? It's like people are going out of their way to be outraged over something and cranking it up to 11. Have people always been this emotionally immature and we are only seeing it more now because everyone and their dog can broadcast it over the internet, or is it just the new way for people to get attention by having the most extreme reaction?
The real issue here is that a monoculture is forming within the world of Linux distros, and that's not a good thing at all.
Even if a lot of people hated them, at least projects like Upstart, Unity and Mir presented alternatives. They provided competition and a place for new ideas to emerge. This diversity is needed in any healthy ecosystem, including the Linux distro ecosystem.
With Ubuntu moving to systemd and GNOME 3 there's little that sets it apart from Debian.
What's worse, with Debian moving to systemd and GNOME 3 there's little that sets it apart from Fedora.
Really, what's the major difference between Fedora and Debian these days? Pretty much only that you type "dnf" to manage packages when using Fedora, and "apt" when using Debian.
Otherwise, Debian and Fedora use the same kernel, the same init system, the same windowing system, the same desktop environment, and the same userland software.
This is usually when small-minded people say something like, "But there are other desktop environments!" or "But there are other distros!". Of course, they don't realize that these desktop environments and Linux distros are second-, third-, or even fourth-class citizens. Sensible people can't justify using a Linux distro that's just somebody's hobby project (like Slackware, Devuan, and even Gentoo). Sensible people can't justify using a desktop environment that appears to be abandoned (like Xfce, whose last release is Feb. 2015).
If you've been using Linux seriously, there have really only been 3 practical options available for several years now:
1) Fedora, RHEL, and derived distros.
2) Debian
3) Ubuntu
Now we can take 3) off of the table, since it'll be almost identical to 2). And with Debian using systemd and GNOME 3, we might as well remove 2). Now all we're left with is 1).
"Linux distro" is starting to mean just one thing: whatever Red Hat throws at us.
The once vibrant Linux ecosystem is falling apart rapidly, and we're losing so much choice as a result of this. Within a few years we'll all be using Fedora, or something like a "Debian" or "Ubuntu" that will basically be Fedora with a different name.
Almost every day we're subjected to a summary that links to a "BetaNews" article. On March 31 we were subjected to two such submissions. On March 25 we were subjected to three of them!
Please, Slashdot editors, stop putting submissions that link to "BetaNews" articles on the front page! The quality is just not sufficient, even by Slashdot's horribly low standards.
If we really wanted to read "BetaNews" articles, we'd go to that site directly each day. The thing is, we don't want to read "BetaNews" articles!
As far as I'm concerned, there's absolutely no legitimate reason for a summary here to be linking to a "BetaNews" article.
We should not be seeing a submission linking to "BetaNews" nearly every day. Even once a month would be too much.
So let's cut it out, ok? If a summary links to a "BetaNews" article, discard it. Do not put it on the Slashdot front page.
Remember back when Betanews had news about beta software, and not just clickbait bullshit like this? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
I left Ubuntu for greener pastures when they started the GUI sillyness.
I actually thought Shuttleworth made some valid points about the open source community. Others had made similar low key remarks to this effect. Some in the community are snobs and introverts and don't mind being that way. Its much like a cult group who only accept those truly committed to open source pure and simple. How many have condemned the Chrome OS or even Android as not being pure enough to be called open source. Even Ubuntu itself was chastised for making it easy for DRM content to be played on its OS. Unity was also condemned for being outside the box of normal open source. Jesus people its free to download either use it or not, stop the whine already.
You have to admit, it's still better than Windows 10.
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Noone will miss Unity only Shuttleworth forks
If you don't want/like the UNITY desktop, Ubuntu 17.04 ("Zesty Zappus") is available in a wide variety of "flavors" to suit any taste:
* XUbuntu: XFCE
* LUbuntu: LXDE
* Ubuntu-GNOME: GNOME 3
* Ubuntu-MATE: GNOME 2
* Ubuntu: UNITY
Download the flavor you want from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/
RE: Lack of LTS... I usually run non-LTS versions in a free VM -- Oracle Virtualbox. But VMWare player works too.
I stopped using ubuntu.
I normally use windoze anyhow, but for cases when I needed Linux, it was Ubuntu.
Then, suddenly, desktop, start menu and taskbar that I was used to, were there no more.
Tried mint/arch, liked both, still using.
There a hundreds of other options out there. Most of them better.
'Ubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" is available for download .. Unfortunately, the release is a bit tainted -- it uses Unity as the official desktop environment
Then download the Lubuntu version which used the LXDE desktop environment.
linux is a fuckin joke
Just install Ubuntu Gnome 17.04 and get a six to twelve month head start on everyone else.
Featuring Unity? I don't think that's actually something you want to brag about.