Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Beta Released With Many Improvements

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Beta Released With Many Improvements

In working toward the official Ubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" release on 21 April, today Canonical and the Ubuntu community have announced the beta release...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-22.04-LTS-Beta

[jabl]

Slightly disappointing that they went with Pulseaudio as default rather than Pipewise, but otherwise, looking forward to it.

[tildearrow]

Slightly disappointing that they went with Pulseaudio as default rather than Pipewise, but otherwise, looking forward to it.

The moment they go PipeWire they will ship a broken setup by default.

(I actually hope not)

[jabl]

The moment they go PipeWire they will ship a broken setup by default.

(I actually hope not)

Well, maybe. But yes, I do understand the logic of not doing a potentially disruptive change in an LTS release. Better to do it in a non-LTS release and let it mature for a while before including it in a LTS. Still, the little child in me that wants the latest and shiniest toys is disappointed.

OTOH I'm perfectly fine with the choice of the 5.15 LTS kernel. Once 22.10 rolls around there will be HWE kernels for those 22.04 LTS users that need newer kernels for driver support anyway.

[Amano]

POWER supprot baseline --> support?

Mesa 22.0 should also make it into Ubuntu 22.04 LTS --> it made it there already:

esa-va-drivers/jammy,now 22.0.0-0ubuntu2 amd64
mesa-va-drivers/jammy,now 22.0.0-0ubuntu2 i386
mesa-vdpau-drivers/jammy,now 22.0.0-0ubuntu2 amd64
mesa-vulkan-drivers/jammy,now 22.0.0-0ubuntu2 amd64
mesa-vulkan-drivers/jammy,now 22.0.0-0ubuntu2 i386

[V1tol]

The moment they go PipeWire they will ship a broken setup by default.

PipeWire works surprisingly good (definitely better than Wayland) for me. Dropped PulseAudio as a nightmare.

[Steffo]

They will still ship Gnome GTK 3 instead of GTK 4 applications, which is disappointing. Seems that Ubuntu is the new Debian by shipping old packages.

[andre30correia]

PipeWire works surprisingly good (definitely better than Wayland) for me. Dropped PulseAudio as a nightmare.

What the problem with pulseaudio this days? i dont have problems in the last 8 years

[kvuj]

-march=power9 is absolutely brutal.

In my humble opinion, they maybe should have kept a special version for POWER8 and only compiled LTS releases for it in order to not absolutely shred the packaging servers.

[szymon_g]

is kubuntu in beta as well? does it allows for an effortless zfs installation (the same way ubuntu does)?