Ubuntu 14.10 Officially Released

[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:~#

[carewolf]

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

[dh04000]

I've been using 14.10 at home since alpha.
Nvidia (blob from xorg-edgers ppa), DE - mate.
It has been stable and fast all the time.

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

[dh04000]

With the hardware enablement stack you can get the backported kernel and xorg onto your LTS, too.

My favorite part of LTS releases. Once the click packages allow apps to updated as well, life will be great in LTS land.

[asavah]

I've been using 14.10 at home since alpha.
Nvidia (blob from xorg-edgers ppa), DE - mate.
It has been stable and fast all the time.

[k1l_]

Yeah the main advantages over 14.04 LTS are the newer hardware support (Xserver 1.16 with better GLAMOR 2D accel, Mesa 10.3, Linux 3.16 etc.) but some new upstream versions are also welcomed like VLC 2.2 with VDPAU & VA-API support out of the box.

With the hardware enablement stack you can get the backported kernel and xorg onto your LTS, too.

More interesting will be all the forum comments when all the RadeonSI users start experiencing https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79980 . :-(

There are a couple guys trying to bi-sect the bug, but they haven't succedded yet.

This is happening again?

I had my 7850 about a week ago, and I recall it being fine on 3.17 (fine as in no repeated GPU crashes; had a random GPU crash once though). Had to RMA my card again though so I can't actually test it now.

Was just trying to decide if I should use open-source drivers or fglrx with a fresh 14.10 install; guess I know which to choose for now.

[d2kx]

Yeah the main advantages over 14.04 LTS are the newer hardware support (Xserver 1.16 with better GLAMOR 2D accel, Mesa 10.3, Linux 3.16 etc.) but some new upstream versions are also welcomed like VLC 2.2 with VDPAU & VA-API support out of the box.

[ua=42]

More interesting will be all the forum comments when all the RadeonSI users start experiencing https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79980 . :-(

There are a couple guys trying to bi-sect the bug, but they haven't succedded yet.

No GNOME 3.14, instead a mixture of GNOME 3.10 & 3.12?

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.