Ubuntu 21.04 Testing Week Continues For Taming The Hirsute Hippo

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Ubuntu 21.04 Testing Week Continues For Taming The Hirsute Hippo

Kicked off this past Thursday and running through 7 April is the Ubuntu 21.04 "Testing Week" for helping to test the new changes and catch any remaining issues with there being now just three weeks to go to the final release...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-21.04-Testing-Week

[ThoreauHD]

Hope they pushed past 5.11.5/6 before release. Had some bluetooth/wifi stability issues up until that point. Seems there was a buffer overflow/memory bug in a few of the device drivers.

[dylanmtaylor]

Would have liked to see pipewire for audio and GNOME 40, as well as KDE Wayland sessions from them but it's still going to be a pretty solid release.

[Radtraveller]

Failed install, failed install, successful install, black screen with blinking white dot at top left after reboot.
I will wait till later.

[angrypie]

Failed install, failed install, successful install, black screen with blinking white dot at top left after reboot.
I will wait till later.

Hirsute Hippo needs a conditioner, then.

[skeevy420]

Would have liked to see pipewire for audio and GNOME 40, as well as KDE Wayland sessions from them but it's still going to be a pretty solid release.

They're conservative and use a lot of GNOME plugins so 40 not yet isn't that surprising. Same with pipewere. It isn't that spread in use outside of a small set of users on rolling distributions like Fedora, Arch, Gentoo, and SUSE.

I would have liked to have seen their ZFS installer added to Kubuntu. Kind of disappointed me when I read that on their bug tracker the other day.

[elatllat]

Maybe they should get around to fixing that bug from 2013 that makes the desktop unusable https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-shell/+bug/1181666