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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.
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?
They went with Hardy Hardon.. I mean Heron for "H"
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)
They went with Hardy Hardon.. I mean Heron for "H"
If you really want to see fireworks on /. just wait until they get to Sexy systemd.
Did you file a bug report?
Seriously, I installed 17.10 on my laptop, a Lenovo Y-50. Yeah, that's the one what that got the trashed BIOS from the kernel that came with 17.10. I updated the kernel wo one that fixed the problem, but it didn't leave me with a warm feeling about Ubuntu. And the 'fix' kernel doesn't work with ZFS because the DKMS kernel module build fails. I asked about this on 'AskUbuntu' and got one suggestion to check my DKMS configuration. It was a lot easier to just return to Debian (dual boot.)
Another thing I didn't care for - The 'software store' doesn't list all available packages. There used to be a setting to enable this but it has been removed. Synaptic or 'apt search' can be used to search all packages. But they don't search snaps.. 'snap search' (or something like that (they felt that using the same key words as 'apt' was not a good idea.) will list available snaps.
I also miss middle mouse button copy/paste.
One thing I did like about 17.10 was the ability to configure a 'start application' to run when I log in on the graphical desktop. I haven't figured out how to do that with Debian. Yet.
I suspect that ANOTHER CRIPPLING BOMBSHELL HITS THE BELEAGURED UBUNTU COMMUNITY er I mean that the death of Ubuntu is greatly exaggerated. I've heard people don't like it so much for desktop use. I've never really noticed: as an FVWM diehard, all the "better" desktop distributions don't do much for me since I install FVWM first thing anyway.
I'm not a fan of systemd, but that's hardly unique to ubuntu to put it mildly. It's still pretty popular on servers and the LTS releases are generally pretty hassle free: you set them up and they don't break for 5 years. Likewise workstations.
Ubuntu has mostly reached the point where it's boring and generally works.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
I also miss middle mouse button copy/paste.
I hear some systems like to misconfigure that by default because Gnome at any rate thinks it's an "easter egg" and is determined to destroy everything good about Linux, preferring insteat a Windows 95^W XP^W^WOSX ripoff.
I assume you're on a laptop in which case synclient will beable to set the mapping of button 2 back to button 2.
One thing I did like about 17.10 was the ability to configure a 'start application' to run when I log in on the graphical desktop. I haven't figured out how to do that with Debian. Yet.
Which desktop?
SJW n. One who posts facts.
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?
Yes, this is news. It's news for the original core audience.
Back when CmdrTaco ran the site, it actually had NERD NEWS, not this political BS.
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
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.
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?
I agree that a beta release is a bit much for a headline. However, Ubuntu news is still worth keeping apprised of. It's lower on the Distrowatch download stats, for sure, but Ubuntu has a sizeable ecosystem around it. Everything from half-decent forums to Youtube tutorials, to the fact that downstream distros like Crunchbang, Mythbuntu, Blackbox, and Gallium, are groups impacted by new Ubuntu releases.
The good/bad part about rolling release Linux distros is that releases aren't necessarily released as a result of groundbreaking new features being added. Moreover, while Ubuntu proper might be falling in popularity at a desktop level, if you add in Mint, the numbers hold up. Finally, it's pretty challenging to truly assess the popularity of a Linux distro; Debian runs lots of my infrastructure primarily due to it being the basis of the Turnkey Linux appliances but Debian isn't exactly getting credit for it.
I also miss middle mouse button copy/paste.
I hear some systems like to misconfigure that by default because Gnome at any rate thinks it's an "easter egg" and is determined to destroy everything good about Linux, preferring insteat a Windows 95^W XP^W^WOSX ripoff.
I assume you're on a laptop in which case synclient will beable to set the mapping of button 2 back to button 2.
I am on a laptop and synclient no longer works because they are using a different touchpad driver. I suppose it is a matter of time before this is the situation on Debian too.
One thing I did like about 17.10 was the ability to configure a 'start application' to run when I log in on the graphical desktop. I haven't figured out how to do that with Debian. Yet.
Which desktop?
Gnome Shell - the default (AFAIK) for Debian.
I am on a laptop and synclient no longer works because they are using a different touchpad driver. I suppose it is a matter of time before this is the situation on Debian too.
Yes! You triggered the correct memory. I've encountered this. Synclient was superseded by libinput as a more generic system. Try here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/ind...
The arch documentation for Linux is excellent by the way, even if you don't use arch. TL;DR, you use xinput now, not synclient.
Gnome Shell - the default (AFAIK) for Debian.
I don't use GNOME, but I believe you can put scripts in somethig like .config/autostart
Here's the spec:
https://specifications.freedes...
The documentation has the flavour of the Isla de Muerta: it cannot be found save by those who already know where it it, but now you know too.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
66 Comments in and all of them deserving their current moderation. What the hell is going on on this site right now?
Gnome Shell - the default (AFAIK) for Debian.
The default for Debian with Gnome GUI. GUI isn't even a required default for Debian. But the underpants people have succesfully removed Gnome from their label in the installer so you get the false choice between "GUI" and "KDE GUI"... We used to be able to report bugs on that and have it fixed, but at some point a few years ago the midgets have started
to get away with it.
Amen. More Linux, physics, and tech. And hot grits.
Ubuntu has mostly reached the point where it's boring and generally works.
Which means it's hit enterprise. The only alternative I've seen to Fedora and, at least where I've seen it, close to up to date.
It's the release Matlab and Nvidia target (my experience) as well multiple other companies.
Most will only support 2 LTS which means 14.04, the first "big" Ubuntu release into enterprise, is going to get deprecated. Which means life after April is going to be interesting.
Are you named after an Ubuntu release? The started using imaginary animals with J, so I wouldn't put using pokemon past them.
How can something that doesn't exist be "alpha quality"?
Classy cunt?
Time for bed, said Zebedee - boing
But how can this qualify as a beta release if the primary UI isn't even included?