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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TactikalKitty Apr 28
I'd love to go back to Ubuntu on my laptop but...ugh Snaps....just no. Until then, It's either Linux Mint or OpenSuse Tumbleweed for me for my Desktop and PopOS for my laptop.
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Updated from 23.10 to 24.04. Running great. Just the run of the mill boring LTS update, no exciting new features. Everything works well except a manual package I installed (Wezterm) and one gnome extension that's not Gnome 46 ready. Switched to similar extension that was 46 ready, and also switched over to the Wezterm ppa. I look forward to another stable boring 6 months.
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While we can still package and update important additional applications outside of the ubuntu repositories, i think we need an additional gaming repo that is kind of rolling.
(and we need to get rid of this snap pack nonsense for everything)
Wine-Releases are a huge bonus if you get the biweekly ones from their repo.
There are tools for Cooling & RGB like polychromatic, CoolerControl or OpenRazer that would be beneficial by default as well.
I am actively looking into remixing the official ISO with all these nice little helpers so i can safely give it to friends and all the recommended stuff is already there.
Any idea how i can pre-configure addons&settings for Firefox in this way?
(and we need to get rid of this snap pack nonsense for everything)
Wine-Releases are a huge bonus if you get the biweekly ones from their repo.
There are tools for Cooling & RGB like polychromatic, CoolerControl or OpenRazer that would be beneficial by default as well.
I am actively looking into remixing the official ISO with all these nice little helpers so i can safely give it to friends and all the recommended stuff is already there.
Any idea how i can pre-configure addons&settings for Firefox in this way?
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Quoting: EikeQuoting: 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.
Only rearranging your build environment every 4 years instead of every 2 years isn't really how I would defined bit rot ;). Heck all the QA some of our customers have to perform on each release before they certify it for production takes almost those 4 years.
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Quoting: F.UltraOnly rearranging your build environment every 4 years instead of every 2 years isn't really how I would defined bit rot ;).
To be honest, the examples I was thinking of were quite longer than 2 or 4 years. But I'd still prefer to be closer to the wave. Like changing every two years to the LTS version that's a year old at that time.
Quoting: F.UltraHeck all the QA some of our customers have to perform on each release before they certify it for production takes almost those 4 years.
That sounds strange. I don't want to disclose more (not that it is very secret stuff, I just want to keep it private), but our customers would be counted as critical infrastructure and they are careful and... reluctant to change, but as far as I know, even they are a bit faster than that.
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rustigsmed Apr 29
a bit of a shame they couldn't get Plasma 6 in time for Kubuntu.
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Quoting: rustigsmeda bit of a shame they couldn't get Plasma 6 in time for Kubuntu.
same story for lubuntu with lxqt 2.0
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legluondunet Apr 29
How do you install Gamescope on Ubuntu 24.04? Package is available throw official Ubuntu depots?
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Quoting: EikeQuoting: F.UltraOnly rearranging your build environment every 4 years instead of every 2 years isn't really how I would defined bit rot ;).
To be honest, the examples I was thinking of were quite longer than 2 or 4 years. But I'd still prefer to be closer to the wave. Like changing every two years to the LTS version that's a year old at that time.
Quoting: F.UltraHeck all the QA some of our customers have to perform on each release before they certify it for production takes almost those 4 years.
That sounds strange. I don't want to disclose more (not that it is very secret stuff, I just want to keep it private), but our customers would be counted as critical infrastructure and they are careful and... reluctant to change, but as far as I know, even they are a bit faster than that.
Well it was mostly an exaggeration to paint the picture :). Many of our customers are banks and most of their internal QA is so long and resource intensive that they complained massively one time when he had two releases per year asking if we could promise going forward to have max one release per year, and that instance have always been there nagging me in the back of the mind (as a developer I want to do changes now as soon as I hear about the bug or about a great suggestion and not have to pre-announce it for years on end).
Non-gold medal to Morningstar who took close to 6 years to remove a line in a static file on their ftp server once, now that is moving at light speed :)
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Quoting: legluondunetHow do you install Gamescope on Ubuntu 24.04? Package is available throw official Ubuntu depots?
it is in multiverse:
f.ultra@Sineya:~$ apt-cache policy gamescope
gamescope:
Installerad: 3.12.3-1
Kandidat: 3.12.3-1
Versionstabell:
*** 3.12.3-1 500
500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu mantic/multiverse amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
f.ultra@Sineya:~$ The above on a 23.10
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