Ubuntu Linux 17.04 'Zesty Zapus' Final Beta Now Available For Download (betanews.com) 113
BrianFagioli writes: The final beta of Ubuntu 17.04 'Zesty Zapus' became available for download Thursday. While it is never a good idea to run pre-release software on production machines, Canonical is claiming that it should be largely bug free at this point. In other words, if you understand the risks, it should be a fairly safe. Home users aside, this is a good opportunity for administrators to conduct testing prior to the official release next month.
"The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the final beta release of the Ubuntu 17.04 Desktop, Server, and Cloud products. Codenamed 'Zesty Zapus', 17.04 continues Ubuntu's proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution," says Adam Conrad, Canonical. "The team has been hard at work through this cycle, introducing new features and fixing bugs."
"The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the final beta release of the Ubuntu 17.04 Desktop, Server, and Cloud products. Codenamed 'Zesty Zapus', 17.04 continues Ubuntu's proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution," says Adam Conrad, Canonical. "The team has been hard at work through this cycle, introducing new features and fixing bugs."
So, they've reached the end of the alphabet (Score:3, Interesting)
What's the next naming scheme?
Re:So, they've reached the end of the alphabet (Score:4, Insightful)
I would be fine with numbers. 18.04, 18.10, so on.
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Names are less vulnerable to single-char typos. 17.04 is one char (and physically one key) away from 18.04. Also, it is easier to search for things related to your distro using google if you use the name (since google will struggle to grasp the context for each number you use).
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ubuntu 12.04 apache conf (or whatever) works perfectly. At lest its obvious what is new and what is old, with numbers.
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It should work fine with quotes (for example search for "ubuntu 18.04", including quotes) as long as there are no typos.
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It should work fine with quotes (for example search for "ubuntu 18.04", including quotes) as long as there are no typos.
If people typed that out fully when they ask yes, but on an Ubuntu forum that would be extremely redundant and "18.04" triggers on everything to do with 18th of April and other junk. The nice part about the nicknames is that if I say zesty and the page contains ubuntu somewhere, you've probably come to the right place even if they're not right next to each other. They should try to keep them short and simple tho. Like:
artsy, burly, curly, dandy, earthy, frisky, gaunt, humble, innate, jolly, keen, livid, mur
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Might as well switch from animals to vegetables.
Anoxic artichoke, blushing beetroot, cross-dressing cabbage, ...
Re:So, they've reached the end of the alphabet (Score:4, Funny)
I hope it's something that doesn't sound retarded so I can finally talk to my boss about Linux.
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Vista? Snow Leopard? I can understand names that are groan-worthy like GIMP, but the rest doesn't sound worse than NFL teams. Besides they have official release numbers, if you say Ubuntu 17.04 you don't have to call it "Zesty Zepus". If he should care enough to find it and ask, then "Yeah the developers have a nickname for each release, easier for the techs. For everyone else it's Ubuntu, just like Windows or OS X". If that's the excuse your boss would use it's because he doesn't like it for some other rea
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I hope it's something that doesn't sound retarded so I can finally talk to my boss about Linux.
Or do him a solid and suggest to use Red Hat like real companies do.
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Using Ubuntu is like ordering a mocha at Starbucks; if you don't like coffee, just get a hot chocolate and move on.
If you want a Debian, use Debian; if you want a retarded UI, use a Mac. There's no point in going halfsies.
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I assumed it was base64, in which case we still have quite a few characters to go. Perhaps less if we don't consider case, but still :)
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Accessible Arsehole
Re:So, they've not reached the end of the alphabet (Score:2)
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"Final beta" (Score:1)
stop using these oxymorons, and things like "pre-alpha-release-candidate" and what not. It's either a beta, or a final.
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Understanding the risks does not make it safer (Score:3)
No: if you understand the risks then you won't run anything mission critical on it, but it won't make it less prone to break. Breakage is unlikely to come because you stress it, more by exposure to some unusual edge case.
I suppose: if you do really understand it you might be in a better position to repair it and dig yourself out of a hole.
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Stick it on a spare machine, try your mission critical software with test data, see what's different, and what breaks. In any case, you should be asking why you're investigating a non-LTS release for serious stuff, and indeed why you're bothering with Ubuntu at all for serious stuff.
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I think anyone who has been using Ubuntu for anything mission critical has been ignoring the non-LTS releases for years now. If you want to put Ubuntu on a toy, grab the latest release. If you want to put it on a real machine, grab an LTS release that is at least 6 months old.
Meh, (Score:2)
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at the very least, a mate or cinnamon desktop.
those fucking stoopid ubuntu term window scrollbars. dammit. after all these years, they still continue to force that on users. damn.
Beta testing (Score:3, Interesting)
Let's get it started (Score:5, Funny)
Ubuntu is the best distribution for all use cases and user knowledge levels. The addition of systemd really kicked things up even another notch.
You may begin...
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I hope they don't put you in a BSD jail...
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As a linux user and an anti-fan of systemd, I thought I'd give FreeBSD a try - it's been years since I last gave any BSD a go.
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So, first thing I try and do gives an unGoogle-able error message. That's enough playing about, I'll try a BSD again in a few more years.
We've all been there... Next on your list should be: installing Slackware on a brand new ultrabook that has no ethernet adapter.
Re: Let's get it started (Score:3)
From ftp.freebsd.org...
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Tried Ubuntu server, couldn't RDP to the machine. 0/10 would not purchase again.
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Re:Let's get it started (Score:5, Interesting)
Tried Ubuntu server, couldn't RDP to the machine. 0/10 would not purchase again.
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-xfce4 xrdp
Even jokes are one line fixes in Ubuntu :-)
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Even jokes are one line fixes in Ubuntu :-)
Here's the best one-line fix for Ubuntu:
wget Fedora-Live.iso
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$ wget Fedora-Live.iso
--2017-03-26 12:52:12-- http://fedora-live.iso/
Resolving fedora-live.iso (fedora-live.iso)... failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address ‘fedora-live.iso’
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Anything is a one-line fix in *IX, given enough semicolons and slashes.
--sf
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And once it has moved to Mir, all those other Linux distros won't even be properly compatible with the industry standard Ubuntu setup. [ ducks ]
Server and Desktop for me (Score:2)
I don't know if it is still the case, but as little as three years ago I tested various Linux distros for someone else to run on a laptop computer. Stuff that is easy to run and easy to update. I wanted to try OpenSuse. It kinda failed me in that it had obvious bugs. Too many of them. Bugs that could be fixed and all (Linux), but nothing an end user should see. I tried a couple other ones, but in the end, Ubuntu proved to be what it has been for more than a decade: A true Linux for end users. Since I prefer
Pretty solid (Score:4, Informative)
I've been running Zesty for over a month in VMs and on bare metal with no serious issues. I had one bug that threw an error message on startup several weeks ago, but it was patched within a few days... and the bug didn't seem to affect anything. I don't use the default DE, though -- I use Cinnamon, so ymmv with Unity.
My only issues with Zesty are the same as I have with previous releases. Running IPv6 as dual stack with IPv4 is more complicated than it should be... the Gnome network manager doesn't understand IPv6 DNS addresses so it displays part of them as an IPv4 address instead, and samba occasionally flakes out and doesn't see my windows shares, yet will map to them if I run a script to do so (I don't know what's going on there... master browser issue perhaps, but... doubt it!)
I really can't see much of a change from 16.04 LTS or 16.10, but it runs well, and I have no serious complaints. I've upgraded from 16.04 to 16.10 to 17.04 beta without anything breaking, but If your 16.04 works for your hardware and has repos for your software, you may want to stick with it 'til the next LTS. There's no significant changes in this one to convince me it's a must-have. Maybe the next LTS release if it has more Mir or Wayland support and Vulkan drivers.
Re:"Final Beta"? (Score:5, Informative)
Why would that be so hard to understand?
The Ubuntu release schedule is and have always been:
phail (Score:2)
So they have Alpha 2 but no Final Alpha, and they have a Final Beta but not Beta 2. How hard is it to have a minimum of consistency in a release schedule?
Did they choose this scheme to annoy aspies, or are they just that nonchalant and careless? Oh wait, I've tried Ubuntu so I know the answer.
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Not once has my Ubuntu installation ever displayed the animal nickname. In fact, I'm running 16.04 and I don't even know what the nickname for it is.
Also, MacOS uses animal nicknames more prominently and confusingly and both MacOS and Windows have confusing version numbering (OS X makes it look like there's only been minor revisions for decades, and Windows has no clue how to count and changes the whole scheme repeatedly).
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You're absolutely backwards AC. I don't care what goofy assed naming convention or garish boot/login splash is used as long as the system is stable, fast, configurable, and suited to my needs. Likewise, I don't care how noble and "professional" the name or logo appears if I've got to reboot lock-ups, schedule coffee breaks for wait periods, and only get to do what the OS's developer decided I needed to do my work.
As always, you're the problem AC...
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I don't care what goofy assed naming convention or garish boot/login splash is used as long as the system is stable, fast, configurable, and suited to my needs,
well obviously you are not an ubuntu user
I looked up Mir and I'm Skeptical (Score:1)
Next one? (Score:2)
Anxious Albatross?
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Aardvark is the only one I know of.
Lubuntyu and LXQt (Score:2)
Will Lubuntu finally switch over to LXQt? It's been ages since they announced this, and I'm curious to see if it's better than Debian's version of LXQt...
Are Mousekeys still buggy? (Score:2)
As a person who ensures his hands' health, I have to ask, did they finally fix the bugs with mousekeys?
The Bugs are:
1) Sensitivity only be configured through command-line.
2) If you switch a mouse button the speed settings are lost and you need to run xkbset again).
SystemD (Score:2)
Until gnome 2 and upstart is back I will stick with Ubuntu 12.04. The best version and last usuable and Ubuntu extended support too. Join us and we can teach cannoical a lesson if we don't cave in
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Steve Jobs is dead. You can step out of the reality distortion field.