Ubuntu 14.10 Officially Released

[carewolf]

New Ubuntu, so what did they break this time that used to work?

[david_lynch]

What the hell is going on here?

root@pandora:~# cat /etc/os-release 
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="14.04.1 LTS, Trusty Tahr"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS"
VERSION_ID="14.04"
HOME_URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
root@pandora:~# date
Thu Oct 23 10:48:23 PDT 2014
root@pandora:~# do-release-upgrade 
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
No new release found
root@pandora:~#

[deve]

apt-get dist-upgrade, then restart - oh, kernel panic grub.cfg was generated wrongly. I fixed it, then restart - oh, gdm doesn't start I didn't find the reason, simply installed lightdm.

After every large upgrade I need to spend next two days to workaround bugs in my system... It doesn't matter on which distribution.

[k1l_]

What the hell is going on here?

root@pandora:~# cat /etc/os-release 
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="14.04.1 LTS, Trusty Tahr"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS"
VERSION_ID="14.04"
HOME_URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
root@pandora:~# date
Thu Oct 23 10:48:23 PDT 2014
root@pandora:~# do-release-upgrade 
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
No new release found
root@pandora:~#

See if release prompt is set to LTS instead of normal.

[asavah]

How is mate on Ubuntu? Does it play well if you have Mate and Unity installed at the same time?

It's almost perfect for me.
It does play nice.
I don't have unity on my system, I usually install bare, console-only OS and install only the stuff I need via apt-get.

[bison]

New Ubuntu, so what did they break this time that used to work?

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UtopicUnicorn/ReleaseNotes#Known_issues

[enfocomp]

There was a reasoning for this. Apparently GNOME 3.14 came out after the 14.10 feature freeze. But in any case, you're welcome to grab it from PPA if I'm not mistaken.

That's why the Ubuntu 6 month cycles on the clock aren't working as well anymore. They have timed it so each release they're 1 version of GNOME behind. Ubuntu GNOME 14.04 was garbage because of it.

[grndzro]

Wine + fglrx is still broken....

[asdfblah]

New Ubuntu, so what did they break this time that used to work?

What the hell is going on here?

If you guys upgraded "by hand" (from the console), the most likely problem is that the packages weren't configured correcly, and the process itself didn't end well. The solution for this is to keep running "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade", "apt-get -f install" and dpkg (if needed), and configuring things until you don't get errors anymore.

[enfocomp]

Wine + fglrx is still broken....

Unfortunately fglrx will never get fixed it seems. AMD is moving to a new driver but it will only work for future GPUs. Doubt they will be updating fglrx after the new cards are released.