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Ubuntu Linux 18.04 LTS 'Bionic Beaver' Beta 2 Now Available (betanews.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Ubuntu Linux 18.04 "Bionic Beaver" is almost here -- it is due on April 26. In the interim, today, the second -- and final -- beta becomes available. Bionic Beaver is very significant, as it is an LTS version, meaning "Long Term Support." This is important to those that prefer stability to bleeding edge and don't want to deal with the hassle of upgrades. In other words, you can install 18.04 and be confident that it will be supported for 5 years. In comparison, non-LTS Ubuntu versions get a mere 9 months.
There is plenty to be excited about with Ubuntu Linux 18.04 LTS 'Bionic Beaver' Beta 2, including the GNOME 3.28 desktop environment -- Beta 1 did not include GNOME at all. Of course, all the other DE flavors are available too, such as KDE and Xfce. The kernel is at 4.15, which while not the most current version, is still quite modern. Also included is LibreOffice 6.0 -- an essential tool that rivals Microsoft Office. Wayland is available as a technical preview, although X remains the default display server -- for now.
There is plenty to be excited about with Ubuntu Linux 18.04 LTS 'Bionic Beaver' Beta 2, including the GNOME 3.28 desktop environment -- Beta 1 did not include GNOME at all. Of course, all the other DE flavors are available too, such as KDE and Xfce. The kernel is at 4.15, which while not the most current version, is still quite modern. Also included is LibreOffice 6.0 -- an essential tool that rivals Microsoft Office. Wayland is available as a technical preview, although X remains the default display server -- for now.
So we're naming them after porn movies now?
Is it just me or does "Bionic Beaver" sound awfully similar to "Cybernetic Vagina?"
I can barely contain myself! Soon we'll have a slightly incremented version number!
they in turn will appoint all the moms needed to help us get honest for once... cease fire stand down.. in the moms we trust.. thanks again
I miss the days of Ubuntu Linux 18.02.
You are welcome on my lawn.
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I've got to ask you about the bionic beaver. Gussy it up however you want, Shuttleworth. What matters is, does it work?
You're sitting on a goldmine Shuttleworth!
One of our competitors trademarked the term "hypothesis". From now on, we will call them "boneheaded ideas".
promises to be a real eye opener don't miss it... the girls have been shadowboxed out of the budget since the neverending holycost started.. who knows when....
How is the Beta going to be Long Term Support? It is a contradiction in terms.
I know 18.04 once released it will be flagged as a Long Term Support product. But being that it currently beta. This particular version isn't expected to be supported.
Its a Beta of a LTS not the LTS is a beta
Jesus, are you a fucking idiot or something???
18.04 LTS is undergoing beta testing - in case anything is seriously bad before it's finally released. It's not the beta itself that is LTS, it's the final product. You're beta testing what will be 18.04 LTS.
Though, it seems kind of late, I mean, it's April already and they're not at release candidates? Might as well call it 18.05LTS or 18.06LTS...
My first though was some mid/late 1970's naughty fan fiction between Steve Austin and Jaime Sommers.
Apart from Gnome 3 and systemd, you mean?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
If you're in an enterprise environment with a policy that you must have paid support available for everything, then your only option is systemd.
Ubuntu is going after Mint.
It's a way to proof your bad idea with Unity!
The funny part of the show, is that Mint is a lot more stable and have better hardware discovery than Ubuntu. They lost their leading in usuability, and not only because the strange UI !
Ceci n'est pas une Signature !
I'm still disappointed they didn't use my suggested release name, "Masturbating Monkey".
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
There is plenty to be excited about ... including the GNOME 3.28 desktop environment.
'Cause I use Mate, not that GNOME 3 <expletive deleted />
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
I refrained from downloading the beta 1 because there was just one 3GB file and thought : crap! I don't want to waste my time downloading and booting gigabytes of Gnome 3 I don't need. They could have put some words on that download page to tell me what it does and does not include.
Just looking at the comments for this story (90% seem to be crude sex jokes while the other 10% are people whining about Systemd) I've decided I'm done here. The comments on just about every story turn into some sort of political/religious/America vs the world rant and I'm tired of it. I want to see discussion about the actual topic without all the trolls. Are there any pages like that anymore? Slashdot has been going into to the toilet for years now, but I've never found a good alternative (please don't suggest Reddit, that place is an even bigger shit hole). Where did all the adults go?
I'm very much looking forward to installing this. I recently put together a nice Machine Learning / linux workstation / build machine.... https://pcpartpicker.com/list/... And Linux pre 4.14 just flubbed pretty bad with the processor... https://www.phoronix.com/scan.... I got things working somewhat smoothly with Manjaro linux, but getting the CUDA support working was a total hack (currently GCC 6.3 is all they support, not 6.4, much less 7.3 and the arch linux "fix" is very much an admitted dirty hack), and getting Caffe 2 to compile right was turning into more work than it was worth ...
http://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cu... ...
So yes, these problems are largely the fault of Intel and NVIDIA clutching their proprietary pearls, but I am looking forward to running a well supported and stable version of linux that can support and be optimized to the latest hardware that came out 6 months ago.
With so many decent desktop environments available, I highly doubt anyone is excidted about a Gnome desktop.
Ubuntu with Unity was actually quite a well thought out and useful desktop. I can't imagine anyone who has used Unity for the last couple of years enjoying the faux Unity Gnome experience.
There's no contradiction. 18.04 is a long-term support version, and happens to be in the beta phase of development right now. "Long term support" refers to a version that is scheduled to receive updates for a period significantly longer than the standard support period for that particular product. 18.04 is already scheduled to receive updates until 2023 so it's already a LTS version regardless of the fact that it's still 20 days until it's ready for release.
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The kernel is at 4.15, which while not the most current version, is still quite modern.
LOL.
Yes, 4.16 was released 5 days ago. If Bionic Beaver contained 4.16 I'd be seriously worried about their release process. Even a rolling release like ArchLinux doesn't have 4.16 yet.
and she shows it off to all her friends.
One day, you know, that beaver tried to leave her, so she caged him up with cyclone fence.
Along came Lou with the old baboon and said "I recognize that smell,Smells like seven layers,That beaver eatin' Taco Bell!"
I've said before in previous posts that I personally use Fedora, since my day job revolves around Red Hat based systems. But I LOVE Ubuntu. When I starting using Linux back in 1997 (I was late to the game), the community was toxic.
The choices were basically Slackware, which, while a good distro the SW community really expected you to be a Unix god and was unwilling to provides helpful answers other than "gtfo n00b" and "go use windows".
The other choice was Mandriva which had a better community but just the worst documentation. Which meant, you'd go to the community to ask for help, you'd get a response of "RTFM", which would have been fine, had there been a manual and/or if it had had correct information in it. (Yes, I know there were other distros at the time but those were the two big communities)
So a lot of my time was spent reading/editing source code to learn how to use application which should have "just worked" in the first damn place. Now to be fair, I learned a ton because of that.
Then came Ubuntu, along with its rich sugar-daddy. In came professional tech-writers documenting the system, documenting the applications, writing correct and updated how-to guides. In came professional coders fixing long standing bugs. And I watched many other distros die as they bled users to Ubuntu. Even if you dislike some of the design decisions Ubuntu has made over the years, they greatly increased the quality of the entire Linux ecosystem.
Thank you Ubuntu devs for raising the bar!
They've done more to increase mainstream Linux usage than any other distro, and that's worth so much more societal value than some "purist" distro used by 8 people.
I've been on Mint for years. It's stable, it's easy, it's just as secure as Ubuntu if you select your update policy to always do all security updates.
I'm frankly amazed that Mint has been able to do so well with its unstructured organizational style. They need to form a non-profit foundation so they can accept tax-deductible donations; they would bring in a LOT more money that way and be able to hire more developers, speed up release cycles, and increase users multiple times over.
AKA Fleshlight version.
You don't want it until version 18.04.1 anyway, which will be sometime this summer (presumably).
I hope this one doesn't have the bug that occasionally forces me to log in twice. That's really annoying.
Zippy, fast, responsive remote Desktops and Citrix-like Published Applications, all useable from the standard Ubuntu 18.04 repository, no more need to manually add a PPA.
TL;DR: https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:newtox2go
In other words, you can install 18.04 and be confident that it will be supported for 5 years
But if you install any third-party apps, there is little prospect that they will install on a 5 year-old system, if you feel the need to upgrade them during the LTS period. Even if you install all the fixes, patches and other stuff provided by the LTS supplier.
And it is practically certain that some of your apps will require bug fix upgrades or security upgrades during that time. And once those (non LTS) apps start to require libraries or other dependencies that fall outside what the LTS system has chosen to provide as part of that 5 year support, then having an O/S that is "supported" - i.e. receives upgrades - becomes pointless.
politicians are like babies' nappies: they should both be changed regularly and for the same reasons
Your post is marked flamebait and I personally hate all the nastiness against Ubuntu or, really, anything that moves or doesn't move on Slashdot.
But YEAH. At least on the systemd, I agree with your sentiment. Ubuntu would be a much better distribution without it.
I don't want to use gnome 3. Or really gnome anything. I like my systems simpler than that. But I can use KDE or even TWM if I want to. I'm not forced to use another distro because Ubuntu has gnome 3. Me running some other window manager doesn't affect how postgres or nmap or httpd runs. On the other hand, favoring systemd and not caring much about the development of init scripts has the potential to crap up anything I might do on Ubuntu.
They need to drop systemd.
Is this the release that finally ditches the terminal making it possible to administrate the entire OS from the GUI?
Linux was shit from the get go. There was nothing to ruin.
The summary plays up the LTS status of this beta. But a beta version is of no interest to those of us that use LTS distros. The time to upgrade from 16.04 to 18.04 will be around October when a round of bugfixes from the suckers on 6 monthly released has gone in, not 3 weeks (or 6 weeks in the case of the earlier hyped article about the first beta) before official release.