Ubuntu 19.04 'Disco Dingo' Released (betanews.com) 91
Canonical today announced the release of Ubuntu 19.04 "Disco Dingo." With Linux 5.0 and GNOME 3.32, Disco Dingo features performance improvements and visual tweaks. Whether or not you upgrade, Disco Dingo lays the groundwork for future long term support releases of Ubuntu. From a report: Keep in mind, version 19.04 is not LTS (Long Term Support), meaning it is only supported until January 2020. "Ubuntu 19.04 introduces GNOME 3.32 with higher frame rates, smoother startup animations, quicker icon load times and reduced CPU+GPU load. Fractional scaling for HiDPI screens is now available in X-org and Wayland. Installing Ubuntu on VMWare will automatically install open-vm-tools for bi-directional clipboard, easy sharing of files and graceful power state management," says Canonical. The Ubuntu-maker further says, "In Ubuntu 19.04, multiple instances of the same snap can be installed for CI/CD, testing or phased rollouts. For example, two versions of a database or two versions of the golang compiler can be installed at the same time. Snap epochs control when and how data migration happens between major version upgrades."
disco demolition is need of netplan and systemd (Score:1)
disco demolition is need of netplan and systemd
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My favorite code name so far (Score:3, Funny)
Re: My favorite code name so far (Score:1)
"Pure" blood results in things like hemophilia and sickle cell disease... but thanks for playing.
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Worse than that. Google the Ptolemy dynasty of Egypt for some exciting royal incest and the mind-numbing consequences.
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This why we invented encephalization quotient.
Neanderthals score somewhere between equal to Cro-Magnon, to slightly less.
But thanks for playing.
Re:Salsa Sheep (Score:1)
So you're looking for sheep dip?
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Re: My favorite code name so far (Score:2)
A) 'Cause sheep can hear a zipper from a mile away
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Enterprising Earwig
Effervescent Echidna
Eternal Empanada
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The next one will then be Gay Giraffe
Re: The next distro... (Score:2)
Disco Dingo? (Score:2, Funny)
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Haha it can use PulseAudio and run as root. Brilliant!
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That isn't saying much.
Whoever comes up with these names (Score:2)
#offtopic (Score:1)
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But if the can of milk passed to a distributor and then to a grocery store, the finned scrapper is no longer evidence of duplicity.
For instance, Papadopolous sending emails about offers to meet with Russians was used as "evidence", while burying the email responses ("We will not be having those meetings.") from the other campaign staff.
Not all "evidence" is created equal.
Re:Why release? Support for 8 months? (Score:5, Insightful)
These releases are essentially a preview/shakedown/feedback opportunity for maintainers of other packages to test and prepare for the next LTS release. The next LTS release will be much like this one, but incorporating fixes and improvements (or maybe even rollbacks) based on the broader developer community's response to the short-term release.
If you want to have a something you maintain ready for the next LTS release, you can think of these releases as Developer Preview v -1 of the next LTS. If you start testing against the new libraries & such now, you'll be much closer to ready for the next LTS than if you did nothing until it drops.
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Re:Why release? Support for 8 months? (Score:4, Informative)
They call them "Interim" releases.
Sounds like you should stick with 18.04 LTS then. That's the whole point of having them.
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The previous three LTS releases are still available and supported. Nobody is forcing you to upgrade. In fact, the default if you installed an LTS release is to not upgrade to non-LTS releases. Take a breath.
If you want to test and validate stuff for the next LTS release, then install this. Just know that you'll need to upgrade again in 9 months, which takes like 20 minutes on non-ancient hardware.
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So call it a 'preview' release.
My team can't spend the money to roll this out and then roll out a new OS version in 8 months.
Except it's not a preview release. It's a middle point where technical benefits are available in a final release for people who aren't encumbered by costs of rollouts, e.g. Desktop users who are voluntarily contributing to ensuring you have a stable LTS release by running this and reporting bugs where found.
If upgrading costs you money then this is not a release for you. You're more than welcome to do nothing until April 2023 which is when the previous LTS release reaches end of life and by that point you'l
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My guess would be they need features beta tested.
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Because there are issues with old versions of shit on new hardware? Because you want display scaling as you had the audacity to use a 4k display of a different size than the display on your laptop?
I mean, I know it's really taxing to type do-release-upgrade at some point in the next 9 months. What a travesty. May as well never release anything ever again, because if YOU don't want to install it, clearly nobody else ever would.
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But, you should buy my newest car model, it has a 3 month warranty and replacement parts will be available for only the first 8 months. After that you will have to buy a new car.
If cars didn't break down, and the next car cost nothing but my time to drive it to the shop to upgrade then I'd do it. Hell I did it. My employer gave me recurring new lease cars. I had a new car every few months.
Mint (Score:2)
I like Mint, so this could be the new base.
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I've spent 2 months on Mint on a bunch of VMs after an update somehow borked the startup of X on my Ubuntu VMs. Even brand new Ubuntu VM's borked after applying the latest updates and though I could boot into recovery mode & from there continue to boot, X would work but with reduced resolution.
So, for those VM's that needed full screen resolution I tried using Mint. Mint's light green default background for selected text gives white on light green which is unreadable. Mint is migrating to KDE3 so all th
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It has the best documentation of any distro now that Arch has gone all minimalist with it's own docs and it has PPAs to at least somewhat compete with Arch in terms of up to date software availability. Even so I have to manually install 95% of my software because I am not running Arch. I want to switch back to Arch again so I am not constantly wrestling with manual software installations.
Also Intel (ICC) and lots of other companies only support the use of Ubuntu and a handful of other 'special' distros. The
Naming :( (Score:2)
DD (Score:1)
I began using Linux full time at Dapper Drake (6.6) in June of 2006. I remember committing to it despite the lack of equivalent of certain software, and it changed my center of interests.. And now I went full circle and the DD is back ..