Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Final Beta Released 69
prisoninmate writes: Canonical pushed the first-ever public Beta ISO images of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus), which the company calls "Final Beta" builds, and it looks like they ship with Linux kernel 4.4.6 LTS, the ability to move the Unity Launcher to the bottom of the screen, though, the option remains hidden, for now, the LibreOffice 5.1.1 office suite, GNOME Software as the default package manager, and GNOME Calendar as default calendar app, which supports Google Calendars as well. Official flavors like Ubuntu Studio, Kubuntu, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu GNOME, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, and Unbuntu Kylin had also participate in the Beta 2 release. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and its official flavors are currently scheduled for release on April 21, 2016.
(Xenial is kind of a cool word, too.)
Windows 10 killer (Score:4, Interesting)
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Though I'm on board with the sentiment, the truth is that vision has been the case for the last four to six years. Nothing about this release particularly changes the equation. One exception being office functionality, MS Office churns and there's many subtle incompatibilities to contend with.
Re: Windows 10 killer (Score:1)
M$ office isnt even compatible with itself at this point.
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Sorry, no. The office functionality is still nowhere near office. I have been waiting and waiting and waiting and that is the one thing that is holding me back. I opened a word document with LibreOffice recently, saved it, and now it is corrupt to everything but LibreOffice. The Word document had some additional bells and whistles (referencing and formatting for APA 6 standards) so maybe that was what it was due to. And before you say that I should just keep it in ODF - businesses and schools just simp
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With Office on Android, there may be slightly less of a wait... but I doubt we will ever see a
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Online is not an ideal or feature complete way to do office full time. It is a great tool to view and do a few edits on another pc but that is about it. Now if Office 2016 supports Windows 10 better then maybe Redmond can be a great killer.
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Online is not an ideal or feature complete
Define feature complete. Quite frankly when I look at the move by private people, businesses, schools and government institutions to Office365 I pretty much consider it "good enough" for most applications.
The GGP mentioned referencing as a feature that broke it. To be perfectly honest I thought common practice that when you're writing a document complicated enough to need that kind of feature set defaulted to LaTeX. I was mocked for writing my thesis in Word and the referencing features were the single bigg
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that has held you back? i've been using ms office without a single problem on gnu/linux for the last 10 years (occasionally needed at work).
step 1) apt install playonlinux
step 2) start playonlinux and click the big INSTALL button
step 3) select Microsoft Office and follow prompts
this process has been that easy for at least 10 years. first, i used plain wine, then i paid for crossover, now i use playonlinux which is free.
Re: Windows 10 killer (Score:5, Insightful)
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If anything is a Windows 10 killer, it's Windows 10 itself.
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Sounds like a PEBCAK.
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Feel free to link your bug reports.
Oh, right, it's just not worth your time to report problems with free software. You're much too busy to help out other people who are willing to give you the products of their labor for free. What was I thinking.
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I used to have the virtual consoles (ctrl-alt-f1 etc.) show as blank, depending on the video driver and the configuration. I even used the console while "blind" on at least one occasion (and could do what I needed such as killing something or restarting Xorg)
That was pretty specific though (specific to Xorg version and Ubuntu/Mint version and the graphics card)
Also, often times the console technically works perfectly but text at 2048x1536 is not fun to read (that's the fun little habit of running at highest
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I think this one may finally be the Windows 10 killer. With all the Office functionality, modern web browsers, professional programming tools combined with ease of use and great hardware compatibility there's really no reason not to make the jump. There's probably some concern in Redmond this morning.
And probably twice as stable too :-)
Oddly I tried WIndows 10 for the last time earlier this week. VIsual Studio couldn't install any phone or Android SDKs in hyper-v and the icons are not even in the taskbar. Windows 8.1 with a start menu program it is unfortunately. Sigh ... there is no way it will be ready this Summer when the free cutoff is.
But in a more serious note
Serious linux fans but NO.
We had 15 years. No apps, with the exception of 10 it just works and continues to work, comes with pc, our jobs re
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Yeah, if you could actually buy PCs with it.
Although if you look really hard, you can get a Dell XPS 13 with Ubuntu for $101 less than with Windows. A real win-win-win (the third win being not paying money to Microsoft to help advertise Windows).
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Lennart's Testing Software
What gcc is it baselined with? (Score:1)
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gcc 5.3.1 see there: http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/gcc [ubuntu.com]
ugly duck (Score:1)
Man, I look at screenshots from Ubuntu 6 to 9, and it was so pretty and functional. From 10 onwards things seemed to start to go down the drain, and now the thing looks so damn ugly and, even on fast computers, it feels slow (even when it isn't really slow).
And I know people joke about the default desktop background looking like vomit, but it really does look unpleasant, and the desktop looks constricted and claustrophobic even on big screens, in a way that Gnome 2 never did.
I never really liked Ubuntu, I w
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Or you can simply not install Unity and go with a different desktop.
>mint XFCE
If you're hopping distros because of the default desktop, you're doing it wrong.
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BMO
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How do you "not install unity" on an Ubuntu install? Surely it's easier to get mint?
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How about xbuntu?
http://xubuntu.org/ [xubuntu.org]
Here is a whole list of options
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ubuntu... [ubuntu.com]
Re: ugly duck (Score:2, Insightful)
Kubuntu. All the package mgmt and interoperability of Ubuntu with an awesomely usable and customizable KDE desktop.
Ubuntu MATE (Score:2)
For you there is Ubuntu MATE [ubuntu-mate.org]. I consider it the first choice for others to try linux first.
Gnome2 was abandoned by the gnome devs, but others took the code, fixed bugs and kept developing on. That is what the MATE Desktop Environment [mate-desktop.com] is. Anytime you miss Gnome2, think of MATE.
Plus Ubuntu MATE happens to have some of the MATE developers directly involved, they have a goal of friendly and familiar first, just like Ubuntu used to.
Still comes with Amazon crap (Score:1)
Still comes with an Amazon icon installed... Ubuntu is still not "free"
Re: Still comes with Amazon crap (Score:1)
How does an icon that links to Amazon not make it free?
Consistency (Score:3, Interesting)
I really like how consistent Ubuntu is, how they always deliver on their promises. In exactly two years we will be posting about 18.04, witch is very similar to 17.10. It's really something you can rely on, you always know what you are getting.
It's super how they do it with all the new versions of everything! I'm moving from Debian to Ubuntu on my data centers (3) this year, probably will go with 14.04 at first, but should follow soon with 16.04. Kernel 4.4 brings a lot more performance for people with 10K+ TCP connections in a server and 14.04 already have that! With Debian/Centos/RedHat we would have to wait a few years as they don't support those things officially.
I really like how you can trust Ubuntu on their support.
Re:Consistency (Score:4)
TCP implementation has been refactored to make the TCP listener fast path completely lockless. During tests, a server was able to process 3,500,000 SYN packets per second on one listener and still have available CPU cycles
Thanks for the heads up!
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they always deliver on their promises
Like this one [pcworld.com]?
Don't get me wrong, Ubuntu has done a lot of great things and overall they've been a very positive thing for the Linux world, but they're not all awesome and they're far from perfect.
Hibernate (Score:2)
Will my laptop support hibernate/resume as Windows 98 did?
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Depends on the laptop. Same as on window 98 an onward
Launcher (Score:2)
32bit UEFI support? (Score:2)
This gonna be a rather big issue. Netbooks are the cheapest laptops around again, this time they are ultra-flat. They feature tablet-like hardware (2GB RAM soldered to the motherboard, eMMC) and come with Windows 10 32bit.
An example is Asus with Atom Z3735F
Want a Windows 10 killer? The 32bit bootloader support ought to be there for final or even beta.
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I'm referring to the specific caveat that 32bit UEFI only accepts 32bit bootloaders (and 64bit UEFI only accepts 64bit bootloaders).
The processor now is invariably 64bit (on x86 consumer hardware) but the issue stands.
If some 32bit bootloader that loads a 64bit linux kernel is hacked up, that's okay, job is done. The pressing problem is of early booting. It's the only reason to bring that up.
In fact from what I gather, some people have got 64bit linux (Ubuntu daily build) to run on some 32bit UEFI system, w
First ever! (Score:2)
The New York Times published its first-ever public 2016-03-25 newspaper today. Hey, this "first-ever" adjective is fun!
updated? (Score:1)
Ubuntu GUI (Score:1)
Such a long discussion, seems like you people have been waiting for it for ages))) To upgrade to Ubuntu 16.04 Final Beta from Ubuntu 15.10 go https://help.ubuntu.com/commun... [ubuntu.com]. Read how to operate through GUI : https://serversuit.com/communi... [serversuit.com]