Another big Linux distribution release is upon us. Ubuntu 24.04 is a new long-term support release from Canonical available today.
Since it's an LTS it will be supported until June 2029. Although Canonical do suggest waiting for the first point release if you're on the previous LTS for the best experience possible. The point release Ubuntu 24.04.1 is due out August 15th, 2024.
Pictured - Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with Dark Sode
I went through various changes in the article going over the recent Beta but to reiterate some of the goodies:
- Higher vm.max_map_count (1048576) to stop various games crashing (matches Fedora and Arch).
- Linux kernel 6.8 with lots of new and improved hardware support.
- Mesa 24.0.5 open source graphics drivers.
- The first LTS release supporting the Raspberry Pi 5 with both arm64 server and desktop images.
- Updated to GNOME 46.
- A more modern slimmer version of the Ubuntu font family is now shipped as standard.
- Lots of software updates like Firefox 124, LibreOffice 24.2, Thunderbird 115 (now a Snap package), BlueZ 5.72, Pipewire 1.0.4, OpenJDK LTS 21 now the default and so on.
- Various security improvements like the Ubuntu kernel now restricting the use of unprivileged user namespaces. I suggest reading a little more into that specifically, as it sounds a bit complicated.
Full release notes on their Discourse Forum.
Will you be upgrading, or switching to Ubuntu for this latest release? Let me know what you're excited about from it in the comments. As a Kubuntu user since I prefer KDE Plasma, I'll be upgrading at some point over the next week.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Quoting: WayneJetSkiI am surprised devs would not be targeting 22.04 instead of 20.04. It is already 2 years old and I would imagine most users have upgraded to 22.04 by this point.
It's just been released, so most users definitely haven't upgraded. But history is a good teacher. It's not just Ubuntu but other operating systems have had significant issues in their early post-launch days. As a result, some people prefer to play it safe and either wait for .1 to be released or, at the very least, give it a month or so to make sure that any leftover bugs are discovered by the early adopters, and fixed by the developers.
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Quoting: kneekooQuoting: WayneJetSkiI am surprised devs would not be targeting 22.04 instead of 20.04. It is already 2 years old and I would imagine most users have upgraded to 22.04 by this point.
It's just been released, so most users definitely haven't upgraded.
They were talking about the two and the four years old release...
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CyborgZeta Apr 26
Right now, I'm debating whether I want to stay on LTS after my Kubuntu install(s) upgrade from 23.10 (whenever the update drops). I've been pretty satisfied running normal releases the past year, but it may be worthwhile just sticking to LTS.
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Comandante Ñoñardo Apr 26
After upgrading to 22.04 from 20.04, I can not take screenshots anymore with the keyboard.. And that is an usefull feature for me.
Can you screencap with 24.04?
Can you screencap with 24.04?
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I love Ubuntu but I ditched GNOME a long time ago (for many reasons) for Xfce and never looked back. Still, I'll probably wait until the end of the year to upgrade my 22.04 XUbuntu desktop since it tends to take them (Ubuntu, not Xfce devs) that long to work out all the issues.
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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoAfter upgrading to 22.04 from 20.04, I can not take screenshots anymore with the keyboard.. And that is an usefull feature for me.
Can you screencap with 24.04?
shift+prtsc works for me in 23.10, perhaps check that the shortcut haven't accidentally been changed?
Quoting: WayneJetSkiQuoting: CalinouEvery Ubuntu LTS release feels special, since it's often treated as the baseline for shipping apps that are portable across distributions. Of course, the oldest still-supported Ubuntu LTS is usually the one developers are targeting (currently 20.04), but in a few years from now, this will be Ubuntu 24.04.
While I don't use Ubuntu anymore, it's still a distro I appreciate for this reason.
I am surprised devs would not be targeting 22.04 instead of 20.04. It is already 2 years old and I would imagine most users have upgraded to 22.04 by this point.
Because it's much easier to only change your build environment every 4 years instead of every 2 years.
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Quoting: F.UltraBecause it's much easier to only change your build environment every 4 years instead of every 2 years.
Not sure about that. You shouldn't sink too deep in the mud...
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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoAfter upgrading to 22.04 from 20.04, I can not take screenshots anymore with the keyboard.. And that is an usefull feature for me.
Can you screencap with 24.04?
Also upgrade from 22.04 from 20.04 here, print screen button works great, starting a little tool for capturing or recording the screen. You can choose between the whole screen or a selected area.
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Quoting: EikeQuoting: F.UltraBecause it's much easier to only change your build environment every 4 years instead of every 2 years.
Not sure about that. You shouldn't sink too deep in the mud...
I am a developer of enterprise software so yes this is exactly how at least that part of the industry works and thinks. Not sure what mud you talk about, I have build environments that work for CentOS 4 still due to customer demand :)
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Quoting: F.UltraQuoting: EikeQuoting: F.UltraBecause it's much easier to only change your build environment every 4 years instead of every 2 years.
Not sure about that. You shouldn't sink too deep in the mud...
I am a developer of enterprise software so yes this is exactly how at least that part of the industry works and thinks.
Yeah. I'm developer of industry software too, and we're doing our best to not do such things anymore. Bits do rot.
Quoting: F.UltraNot sure what mud you talk about, I have build environments that work for CentOS 4 still due to customer demand :)
For old software, we're keeping old environments around as well.
Last edited by Eike on 27 April 2024 at 7:55 pm UTC
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