Ubuntu 24.10 Beta Released For Testing

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Ubuntu 24.10 Beta Released For Testing

The beta release of Ubuntu 24.10 "Oracular Oriole" was released in time for some weekend testing...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-24.10-Beta

[szymon_g]

What's about the snap based version?

[scottishduck]

What's about the snap based version?

As far as I know core is on a 12 month release cycle that coincides with .04 releases

[szymon_g]

As far as I know core is on a 12 month release cycle that coincides with .04 releases

oh, so we have to wait another 8 months or so for it to be published? i was hoping I could beta test it now :E

[dc_coder_84]

Michael Larabel: Not all flavors are ready for Beta yet as they explain in the beta release announcement:

Ubuntu Cinnamon, Ubuntu MATE and Ubuntu Unity are still in the process of
completing their fixes and testing, and might follow up on Monday.

[peterdk]

Does it already have the 6.11 kernel? I am still on 6.8 a few days ago in 24.10. Couldn't find it in apt as well back then.

[Kryohi]

Does it already have the 6.11 kernel? I am still on 6.8 a few days ago in 24.10. Couldn't find it in apt as well back then.

Yes, 6.11 arrived 3 days ago IIRC. At least on Kubuntu, but I think it's the same for Ubuntu.

[Chugworth]

Too bad Ubuntu still doesn't have the ability to create and name Btrfs subvolumes during installation. That's a really nice feature in Fedora, and makes snapshot management easy with Btrfs Assistant. It looks like Ubuntu makes subvolumes for root and the home directory, but it would be good to put /var/cache and /var/log into their own subvolumes so they don't waste space in the snapshots.

Does it already have the 6.11 kernel? I am still on 6.8 a few days ago in 24.10. Couldn't find it in apt as well back then.

Yes, it's 6.11.

[bkdwt]

How to install if the installer keeps crashing? lol