Ubuntu 21.04 Is The "Hirsute Hippo", Releasing On 22 April

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Ubuntu 21.04 Is The "Hirsute Hippo", Releasing On 22 April

Following last week's Ubuntu 20.10 "Groovy Gorilla" release, Ubuntu 21.04 development is now getting underway as the Hirsute Hippo...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...-Hirsute-Hippo

[cl333r]

The codename and the desktop wallpaper usually make up for 80% of the forum discussions.

[144Hz]

cl333r That can’t be right. Ignorants also need a big time slot to complain about how Canonical/Ubuntu doesn’t contribute to upstreams.

[vegabook]

Canonical has also announced the 21.04 wallpaper:

[treba]

I really hope they make the switch to Wayland (minus on proprietary nv of course) - that would put a lot more weight behind it while leaving enough time for software makers to finally adopt before 22.04. I'm thinking mainly of proprietary software not making use of portals/pipewire for desktop sharing and other X11 specific hacks that are hard to support in Xwayland.

[andre30correia]

I really hope they make the switch to Wayland (minus on proprietary nv of course) - that would put a lot more weight behind it while leaving enough time for software makers to finally adopt before 22.04. I'm thinking mainly of proprietary software not making use of portals/pipewire for desktop sharing and other X11 specific hacks that are hard to support in Xwayland.

I hope wayland comes and nvidia comes to finally

[JeansenVaars]

Updates in Ubuntu would be boring if it wasn't for GNOME updates.

[Azrael5]

they finally switch to wayland.

[andre30correia]

they finally switch to wayland.

for the second time, the first was disaster, since the wayland implementation was bad

[144Hz]

JeansenVaars Mutter 40 updates are already extremely interesting. They have merged quite a lot of new and old MRs. No one bothered to blog about it (yet) so some people are in for a nice surprise later