Canonical Releases Ubuntu Linux 21.10 Impish Indri

Following a brief beta-testing period, Ubuntu 21.10 has finally become available to download in the "final" stable form. BetaNews: Code-named "Impish Indri," this version of Ubuntu is not a Long Term Support (LTS) version, so it is only supported for nine months. Ubuntu 21.10 features Linux kernel 5.13 and a Snap variant of the Mozilla Firefox browser. "Ubuntu 21.10 brings the all-new PHP 8 and GCC 11 including full support for static analysis, greatly improving everyday developer security awareness in low-level programming. With Gnome 40 desktop users gain dynamic workspaces and touchpad gestures. The new Firefox snap, published by Mozilla, improves security and guarantees access to both the latest and the extended support release versions of the browser. The exact same versions of the browser are available on multiple different versions of Ubuntu, simplifying enterprise developer platform management," says Canonical.

Firefox ESR support - odd timing

[bjdevil66]

The new Firefox snap, published by Mozilla, improves security and guarantees access to both the latest and the extended support release versions of the browser.

On its surface, adding support for an ESR version of Firefox in a Linux version that's only supported for nine months seems a little weird.

Re: Firefox ESR support - odd timing

[eneville]

Better to iron out possible problems before LTS I suppose.

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[Uldis Segliņš]

Same here. Snap was such a drag. If I wanted uncontrollable updates, I would not use Linux. Also occasional browser restart in the middle of something, uannounced network use when gaming. No. After ditching Ubuntu also a bunch of Wine games started working. And of course startup times for browser, ridiculous.

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[silverdr]

I ditched Ubuntu, once they abandoned their most promising DE and opted for the GNOME nonsense. Add snap's for everything and systemd as icing on the cake

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[voss]

Gnome was good in the old days but if you like Old gnome style you do MATE otherwise cinnamon which is why I choose use Linux Mint

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[hatchet]

I went for Manjaro for the very same reason (i removed snapd).

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[eneville]

> Now everything opens super fast

The Gentoo way is to compile it first, and that's not fast or eco friendly in my book. There's an edge case perhaps though, if your CPU is 100% for months where you may gain a slither of performance improvement with something like nginx, but would you have a net gain over a month? Would the distro maintainers have missed something in the build? In the end though, something like nginx is normally waiting around for IO so I doubt end users will notice anything.

The question

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[Junta]

Keep in mind that the non-ESR firefox lifetime is only 1 month, and ESR is only 15 months. So ESR will *barely* outlast the lifecycle of the distribution, and the 'short lifetime' has 9-fold the support lifecycle of ESR firefox.

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[Junta]

has 9-fold the support lifecycle of ESR firefox.

Whoops, I meant non-ESR firefox.

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[fahrbot-bot]

The new Firefox snap, published by Mozilla, improves security and guarantees access to both the latest and the extended support release versions of the browser.

On its surface, adding support for an ESR version of Firefox in a Linux version that's only supported for nine months seems a little weird.

It's also problematic for me because one of the first things I do after installing Ubuntu is remove all things "snap" related.

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[drinkypoo]

These releases are beta tests for the long-running releases. Don't run them if you don't want to experience that. It's like running Fedora when what you want is RHEL.

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[DamnOregonian]

Do you always post as AC when you're trying to troll?

Grow a spine, coward.

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[ArchieBunker]

My distro would be called Hairy Clam.

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[DamnOregonian]

I dream of a world where that would be acceptable. I'd be the biggest proponent for Hairy Clam you ever saw.

Remember when Ubuntu was awesome?

[walterbyrd]

Before systemd and Gnome 3, Ubuntu was a great distro.

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[DontBeAMoran]

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

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[silverdr]

Couldn't agree more!

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[StormReaver]

I use KDE, so I can't speak towards GNOME. The most noticeable changes for me before and after systemd revolve around USB devices. Before systemd, they were sometimes recognized, but frequently weren't. I could plug in USB devices and watch the kernal log do nothing time after time. After systemd, they were always recognized.

From an end-user perspective, that is more important than just about anything else: interfacing with the computer is simple and reliable. Before systemd, USB recognition reliability was

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[matmos]

systemd is fine. runit is fine. s6 is fine. don't buy into the hype. Choice is good.

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[organgtool]

I don't doubt you had issues with USB prior to SystemD, but I can honestly say that I haven't had USB issues with Linux in over 10 years, and I've resisted SystemD up until a few years ago. I can remember back in the bad old days when removing a USB device from a Linux machine would render that port dead until a reboot. Even if I unmounted/ejected the device, there was a good chance that Linux just wouldn't recognize that another device had been inserted into that port. But for quite some time, USB has w

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[StormReaver]

...perhaps there was a long-term USB issue in your distro?

There certainly was; and it was present in Slackware, Redhat, Mandrake, Suse, and Kubuntu. Perhaps it was just coincidence that it went away on the first Kubuntu release of systemd.