Ubuntu 21.10 Beta Released

[skeevy420]

5.13? That's EOL. They've been making terrible kernel decisions. 5.8 also is what they were also using for the AMD package.

Historically, Ubuntu tends to do that. One of my biggest Ubuntu peeves is that they always seem to be one point release away from a kernel with longer support.

[Linuxxx]

I would pick debian sid over any ubuntu recent release blindly.

Good enough for you & serves you right at the same time!

Now, for something actually interesting:

Hopefully Canonical can ask/beg/force/coerce/blackmail GregKH into declaring Linux 5.16 as the next LTS release, even though it most likely will get finalized in mid-January 2022, missing the end-of-year cutoff rule for picking the next LTS version by only a few weeks at the latest!

Certainly would be good news for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS!

[royce]

Cool story bro.

[SkyWarrior]

Sorry to be annoying, but they should really start abiding by these kernel rules:

mainline: 5.15-rc2 2021-09-20
stable: 5.14.7 2021-09-22
stable: 5.13.19 [EOL] 2021-09-18
longterm: 5.10.68 2021-09-22
longterm: 5.4.148 2021-09-22

Maybe they are pretenting to be a redhat which could only be in their dreams. I am not blaming redhat for using outdated non-LTS kernels. They have their own resources to tailor whatever they see fit. Ubuntu, I don't think so. I would pick debian sid over any ubuntu recent release blindly.

[SkyWarrior]

Too late. Fedora 34 users enjoyed all those and ready to move on.

[perpetually high]

Ubuntu 21.10 is powered by the Linux 5.13 kernel (sadly not 5.14), upgrades to the GCC 11 compiler along with other toolchain updates, and has a wealth of other improvements. On the desktop side, Ubuntu 21.10 features GNOME 40.

5.13? That's EOL. They've been making terrible kernel decisions. 5.8 also is what they were also using for the AMD package.

I actually tried supporting 5.8 kernel in my script. Didn't boot. Wasted my time. But at least now I know.

Sorry to be annoying, but they should really start abiding by these kernel rules:

mainline: 5.15-rc2 2021-09-20
stable: 5.14.7 2021-09-22
stable: 5.13.19 [EOL] 2021-09-18
longterm: 5.10.68 2021-09-22
longterm: 5.4.148 2021-09-22

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Ubuntu 21.10 Beta Released

Canonical has released the final beta of next month's Ubuntu 21.10 "Impish Indri" release...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-21.10-Beta