I know I can come across as a Very Cranky Kitten but if you'd like to learn how to navigate and install any Linux distro I would be perfectly happy to help you however I can! Letting me know your needs (gaming? art? writing? communication?), level of tech expertise and comfort (automatic updates? etc), needs and workflow, I can almost certainly help you choose and install something!
Also as much as I have unreciprocated beef with Canonical this would be a fantastic time for them to modernize and resurrect their "email/mail us and we'll send you a CD-ROM with Ubuntu" program they did ages ago with "email/mail/text us and we'll send you a USB stick"
Probably a major contributor to #Canonical letting go a lots of desktop engineers in early 2017:
Google did not extend their support contract for #goobuntu (their #Ubuntu flavor), but rolled their own "gLinux".
I think it’s important to remember that if you’re using the excuse that your software project should not be held to account for being inaccessible because it is released under a free software license what you’re really saying is that disabled people are not welcome in the free software world.
In this one, we have a pretty bad scam app making its way onto the Snap Store, and the steps #Canonical and #Ubuntu will take to avoid this situation in the future, we have the Warp terminal coming to Linux, but still not open source, unfortunately, and we have a proposed API for RGB on Linux, and a lot more stuff, including some good news for Linux gaming:
I just gave my talk about "Your perfect #Python development experience on #Ubuntu".
Thanks a lot to the organisers, the wonderful audience and my employer #Canonical enabling me to have pizza with lovely #opensource folks from Prague and all around the world.
As a proud member of the open source community since 1995, as being part of the OSS revolution as a #RedHat, #Canonical and #SuSE employee, with regrets I have to admit @geerlingguy is not totally wrong:
@stgraber just observed that it looks like #Canonical is going down the route of marking #Incus changes as still staying under Apache2, as a way to get our changes while preventing us from taking theirs. Now to see what they'll do about the CLA... https://github.com/canonical/lxd/pull/12675
:ubuntu: Ubuntu Linux 24.04 LTS | Canonical makes the installation simple for varied use cases 🔣
"This alignment not only streamlines our development processes but also introduces features to desktop users that were previously exclusive to server environments. This change enables us to better address the needs of modern OEMs and managed environments" -Tim Holmes-Mitra / Canonical
I was wondering about that odd "I am leaving #Canonical" blogpost by @stgraber some months ago and with this talk it all makes sense: relicensing and kicking out the community of #lxd is pretty hostile and caused the inevitable immediate fork as #incus .
A #Canonical employee reported some out-of-tree code broke after something internal was renamed recently in #Linux 5.15.y – and as expected was told this is no regression at all, as the #LinuxKernel does not have a binary kernel interface, nor does it have a stable kernel interface:
Christoph Hellwig in a reply also wrote: "given that Canonical ignores our #kernel licensing rules and tries to get away with it I'm not going to offer any help to Canonical at all."
2/ "Given that #Canonical ignores our #kernel licensing rules and tries to get away with it I'm not going to offer any help to Canonical at all."
If you wonder what this statement from esteemed #Linux developer Christoph Hellwig is about:
I'm not 100% sure, but I expect it's either the bundling of #Nvidia's proprietary kernel graphics driver module or the inclusion of the #openZFS#LinuxKernel modules in #Ubuntu - or more likely both.
Ich habe einen ersten Blick auf #Ubuntu 24.04 LTS geworfen. Was ist neu? Was gefällt mir? Und warum das Release ein grosser Schritt für eingeschränkte Personen ist? Mehr dazu in meinem Blog: