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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.
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.
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...
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?
How's about taking this as a chance to just drop the Pokemon theme altogether?
The "cute" name tells you nothing. Ok, you know that version "U" comes after "T" and before "V". But when was it released? When does support end? Is it LTS? You know nothing!
If the "cute" name tells you nothing, then it is a useless piece of fluff. And a rather stupid one, I might add, because the developers end up having to hit the encyclopedia real hard to come up with those names, but it just ends up sounding stupid (the crap is a Zapus? Or a Xerus? Or a Xenial Xerus?).
This wouldn't be so bad if the name didn't subsequently get plastered everywhere. "We provide packages of our software for Ubuntu 'Bugs Bunny' and 'Daffy Duck'". Gee, thanks a lot Mr. package provider, which one do I install on my Ubuntu 21.07 (because, while I might remember the version name, I sure as hell am not going to remember that Pokemon for more than 3 minutes, let alone 3 years)?
Their versioning scheme is already pretty decent. Version 15.04 was released in April (04) 2015, hence, 15.04. LTS versions get an LTS slapped in front of them. Non-LTS versions are supported for 9 months and LTS versions are supported for 5 years. So support for 15.04 should end somewhere in February 2016.
Simple. Concise. Useful.
If the version number is more than sufficient, and provides useful information, for Pete's sake, just use that!
From a user's perspective, the only real benefit that open source brings to the table is easy and free procurement.
I don't think you really understand what open source software is about. The cost of procurement is not the main benefit of FOSS.
For us it's not, for 90% of the users it is, rightly or wrongly.
Stupid sexy Flanders.
You have to admit, it's still better than Windows 10.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
No, it'll be some word that begins with [. [utthroat [heetah maybe?
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
Xu and Lu are kinda tricky to download since not released yet in 17.04.
Ku is out though http://www.kubuntu.org/getkubuntu/