The new Ubuntu release is now available.
The Ubuntu kernel has been updated to the 5.3 based Linux kernel, and our default toolchain has moved to gcc 9.2 with glibc 2.30. Additionally, the Raspberry Pi images now support the new Pi 4 as well as 2 and 3.
Ubuntu Desktop 19.10 introduces GNOME 3.34 the fastest release yet with significant performance improvements delivering a more responsive experience. App organisation is easier with the ability to drag and drop icons into categorised folders and users can select light or dark Yaru theme variants. The Ubuntu Desktop installer also introduces installing to ZFS as a root filesystem as an experimental feature.
Ubuntu Server 19.10 integrates recent innovations from key open infrastructure projects like OpenStack Train, Kubernetes, and Ceph with advanced life-cycle management for multi-cloud and on-prem operations, from bare metal, VMware and OpenStack to every major public cloud.
While you may not be using the default Ubuntu, lots of people are using Ubuntu-based distributions like Mint, so a new Ubuntu release always affects quite a few people far beyond just Ubuntu users.
I tried to find an ARM download for my Pi 4 but couldn’t find anything. Anyone know?
It’s part if their IOT section
https://ubuntu.com/download/iot/raspberry-pi
I’ve been meaning to migrate my FreeBSD server at home (running ZFS with Plex, Samba, etc) over to a Linux distro (mostly to get all the advanced Plex Pass features that aren’t supported on FreeBSD), but limited integration with ZFS-on-Linux has prevented me from doing it. This release just might be what tips me over into spending a weekend migrating things over … although I might wait until the LTS release in April …
Guess it’s time to start reading up on how the ZFS integration in Ubuntu is setup. Losing boot environments will be a pain, and their default directory hierarchy for root-on-ZFS is horrible, so will have to see how I can work around those…
But it’s great to see better integration between ZFS and Linux distros. Hopefully, this spurs others to integrate ZoL a little more …
What Plex Pass features aren’t supported on FreeBSD?
All the fancy music library features that rely on musicbrainz, all the fancy hardware encoding features that rely on Linux-only libs for Nvidia cards, and there’s another one that I can’t remember now.
As a media server for Roku devices that support direct play, Plex on FreeBSD works great. And I haven’t really felt like I’m missing anything, but I want to try out the new music library feature, and it’s Linux-only at the moment.
Well-integrated ZFS support is what’s keeping me on FreeBSD. This might be the last little push that let’s me test Plex Pass on Linux with ZFS. 🙂 If the test fails, a simple pool rollback will get me back to the FreeBSD setup. 😀
Ubuntu as a distro doesn’t seem to have found itself since the unity demise.
Without Unity, its usp over Debian seems confused and unclear. Distros like Mint build on their foundation, but do they now exist just to be a base for others? I really hope they decide what they want to be a distro For soon.
Canonical is focusing on servers now, like Red Hat. They gave up on desktop and convergence, and they’re trying to monetize being the “cloud” Linux distro. Ubuntu desktop is still around, but it isn’t their main focus.
This was inevitable after they closed bug #1 with the standard B.S. line that mobile operating system market share is important. They then, of course, failed with Ubuntu phone miserably. They also put an enormous amount of work into Unity, for it to eventually be dropped after being a bane for everyone. They aren’t willing to do major innovations anymore due to all these failures that were looking at the wrong things to revolutionize about the desktop, and are just going to stick to their business contracts. If Ubuntu or Torvalds suddenly came out against package managers and emphasized a real SDK for desktops, the situation might turn around. Otherwise, Linux on desktops just isn’t worth considering (and yes I’ve seen those precious “Snap” packages break too due to dependency problems, not the magic solution it’s said to be.)