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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.
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'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.
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Amen. More Linux, physics, and tech. And hot grits.