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Ubuntu Linux 18.04 'Bionic Beaver' Beta 1 Now Available For Download (betanews.com)
From a report: This week, Ubuntu Linux 18.04 'Bionic Beaver' Beta 1 became available for download. Ubuntu 18.04 is significant, as it will be an LTS (Long Term Support) version. As was the case when Unity was the primary DE, GNOME is not available in this beta stage. Instead, there are other flavors from which to choose, such as Kubuntu with KDE Plasma and Xubuntu, which uses Xfce.
"Pre-releases of the Bionic Beaver are not encouraged for anyone needing a stable system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even frequent breakage. They are, however, recommended for Ubuntu flavor developers and those who want to help in testing, reporting, and fixing bugs as we work towards getting this release ready. Beta 1 includes some software updates that are ready for broader testing. However, it is quite an early set of images, so you should expect some bugs," says Dustin Krysak, Ubuntu Budgie team member.
"Pre-releases of the Bionic Beaver are not encouraged for anyone needing a stable system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even frequent breakage. They are, however, recommended for Ubuntu flavor developers and those who want to help in testing, reporting, and fixing bugs as we work towards getting this release ready. Beta 1 includes some software updates that are ready for broader testing. However, it is quite an early set of images, so you should expect some bugs," says Dustin Krysak, Ubuntu Budgie team member.
It is a BETA for heavens sake. Full release will happen eventually but even that will have bugs. That is just reality.
I got off the Ubuntu bandwagon more than 4 years ago. I found it was changing stuff that didn't need changing so I moved to something with a long term support plan (10 years) in the shape of CentOS.
but the gnome they switched back to is not available to beta test for the first post-unity lts version? wut? are they saying "wait for 18.04.1"?
If you want stable, you're going to have to wait until the final release on April 26th. This is a BETA release. The schedule hasn't changed.
FWIW, I've been running it on a PC with few issues since pre-Alpha, but YMMV.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bionic...
This Beta is feature-complete and now the team is mostly focused on bug fixes and documentation.
Next Beta is April 5th followed by Release Candidate on April 19th, and final release on April 26th. Every release up until Final Release will have cautions about instability.
The reason it's called 18.04 is it's expected to be released near the end of April 2018. It's really not reasonable for anyone to expect anything stable sooner than that... as again, the schedule has not changed.
Bionic Beaver. That's what you're going with.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Have they done 'Horny Horntoad' yet?
Way back in 10.04 days and never went back to Windows. But Ubuntu turned into some kind of metro gay user interface around 15.05 with Unity or the new Gnome. I tried other flavors including gnome-flashback, but lots of bugs trying to get the classic UI. I finally got fed up with Ubuntu and went with Fedora w/Mate & Compiz... Perfect and stable.
Uh, no, women actually know about the different parts of the female anatomy. "Beaver", in the colloquial use, doesn't refer to that part.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
Have you been living under a rock?
A beta for one distro is news? Ubuntu has been falling in popularity according to many sources. This is a late release of only a beta. Why is this news?
Sent from my TARDIS
thank you for installing xubuntu 17.10 heh...
I'm still on trusty (14.04) on one of my machines and I'm glad Ubuntu is well and alive and overcame the Unity disaster. I had never any issues with long term support versions. I just hope that Xorg will stay default. I would not mind Wayland as long as it is not the only version (a linux distribution without Xorg would be not an option any more as I run blackbox, a minimal windows manager which has solved for me the windows manager issue 20 years ago and which had allowed me to just completely ignore unity for the years it existed). The health of Ubuntu is also important for derivative distributions like mint. And even more important is debian which feeds ubuntu. In any case, it is reassuring to see a healthy culture (without monoculture).
Are the screenshots called beaver shots?
10.04 was awesome. Back then, Ubuntu got better with each new release.
After that, Canonical ruined Ubuntu. First with the " Gnome 3 Unity" abomination, and then with systemd.
I use Calculate Linux now.
Great name. My wife said she knows some women that deserve that name.
Ubuntu switched over to GNOME 3, and it's not available in the beta? This is alpha quality software. Period.
Wait for Code_of_Conduct Cunt. That'll be awesome.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
Wait for Code_of_Conduct Cunt. That'll be awesome.
There's more than one cunt behind those codes of conduct.
66 Comments in and all of them deserving their current moderation. What the hell is going on on this site right now?
I've been using using it since 5.10 / Breezy Badger
It feels like those old arcade games, when you finish all the levels, you come back to the first levels, but everything is much harder, enemies are much tougher, and so on. for example Target Renegade on Amstrad CPC. Not sure whether the same principle applied to Double Dragon, because I never played to it..
He's right... A beaver is the pubic area, not the vagina.
Bionic Beaver is to beavers as Pussy Power is to cats.
Power of the pussy wins every time.
Power of the pussy wins hands down with a finger or two folded under.
Linux Mint 18.3 "Sylvia" - KDE (64-bit). "Sylvia" is the current version supported until 2021.
Linux Mint 18.3 "Sylvia" - Xfce (64-bit). "Sylvia" is the current version supported until 2021.
I almost got confused with the posts from my crossfit-place-of-sweat-and-tears (or "box"). Then I saw the "0".
Good luck to Ubuntu fans and good luck to those taking part in this year's Open...
Or fleshlight for short.
The Split Beaver release will be awesome!
There are still people who think "vagina" is the entire area, so he has the right idea, but wrong term.
How can something that doesn't exist be "alpha quality"?
Classy cunt?
Time for bed, said Zebedee - boing
Alpha & beta don't refer to quality. Of course it's supposed to be feature-complete and mostly debugged by the time it gets to beta testing, but it's all about making sure the software meets the spec and is as bug-free as possible.
But how can this qualify as a beta release if the primary UI isn't even included?
Why split hairs?