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Ubuntu 26.04

206 points by lxst

by teekert

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by hnuser123456

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Fine print on coreutils rewrite:
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/an-update-on-rust-coreutils/8...

by jklmnopqrstuvw

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Ubuntu 26 + KDE Plasma 6.6 perfectly handles high-DPI scaling for me. I was originally planning to buy a Mac, but luckily I saw the news about Ubuntu 26 being released a few days ago.

by compounding_it

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Ubuntu LTS is still the choice for many production environments and education and learning. As someone with Ubuntu from 2010 CDs, I find it refreshing that modern Ubuntu distros work OOB on most computers these days with excellent driver support.

by satvikpendem

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What should I use if I like Ubuntu but not snap, just Debian? Or are there alternatives around? Seems like Ubuntu has the best hardware and driver support so just curious what's new in Linux land.

by bashtoni

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Also green light for Fedora 44 release on 28 April
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/meeting_matrix_fedoraproje...

by egorfine

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Unfortunately they forgot to remove Rust coreutils and sudo-rs from Ubuntu prior to releasing 26.04.
I am starting to suspect this even might be intentional.

by scorpioxy

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After using Ubuntu for many years both on the desktop and server, recent decisions have got me thinking that Canonical has lost a lot of its community spirit. That got me switching over machines to Debian which, to me, still feels like a community project. It's a shame.
I am pragmatic about it though so I still run Ubuntu for some things but it's no longer my first recommendation.

by azalemeth

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I know that the interim releases had issues with zfs and trying to update gave the message "Sorry, cannot upgrade this system to 25.04 right now System freezes have been observed on upgrades to 25.04 with ZFS enabled. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PluckyPuffin/ReleaseNotes for more information. "
The release notes don't seem to mention zfs. I hope these issues have been fixed?

by throwa356262

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I am thinking of testing one of those AMD Ryzen AI laptops for development and local LLM. These come with win11 copilot+.
How well does 26.04 with the 7.0 kernel support these? Can it, say, use their GPU and NPU for compute out of the box?

by superkuh

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The comments there note there is no official Ubuntu MATE release for the first time since Ubuntu 15 (and before 14.04 gnome2 was an option). That's a shame but probably most people who chose MATE (or gnome2) no longer chose Ubuntu due to the conflicting ideologies inherent in the two. MATE users generally don't like change for change's sake.

by rasengan

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> TPM-backed full-disk encryption
This is going to be very useful for servers hosted in third party DCs.

by ChrisArchitect

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Earlier official blog: https://ubuntu.com/blog/canonical-releases-ubuntu-26-04-lts-... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47878560)

by rs_rs_rs_rs_rs

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Hard to get some spotlight for this with all these new models around, I feel bad for Canonical.