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Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS

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De vierde point release van versie 16.04 van Ubuntu Linux is uitgekomen. Ubuntu 16.04 is een zogenaamde Long-Term Support-versie. Deze verschijnt eens in de twee jaar en wordt vervolgens vijf jaar van updates voorzien. Normale versies van Ubuntu verschijnen twee keer per jaar, in april en november, en worden drie jaar bijgehouden. De lijst met veranderingen is op deze pagina te vinden, de aankondiging van deze uitgave ziet er als volgt uit:

Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS released

The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the release of Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS (Long-Term Support) for its Desktop, Server, and Cloud products, as well as other flavours of Ubuntu with long-term support.

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Linux Kernel 4.14 Released, This is What’s New

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Linus Torvalds has announced the release of a Linux 4.14, the latest stable release of the Linux kernel.

Linux 4.14 features a number of new features and changes, and is set to become the next long term support (LTS) release backed by several years of ongoing maintainence and support.

Announcing the arrival of Linux 4.14 on the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML), Linus Torvalds writes:-

“Go out and test the new 4.14 release, that is slated to be the next LTS kernel – and start sending me pull request for the 4.15 merge
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Ubuntu 17.10 Artful Aardvark

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De gemiddelde Ubuntu-gebruiker, die halfjaarlijks wisselt van versie, komt voor het eerst in lange tijd voor een echte verrassing te staan: Unity is niet meer. In Ubuntu 17.10 met codenaam Artful Aardvark wordt Canonicals eigen desktopmanager Unity 7 volledig vervangen door Gnome 3.26, met enkele eigen tweaks voor de Ubuntu-feel. Ook moet de oude, vertrouwde Xorg-displayserver eraan geloven, al is het nog mogelijk om in te loggen met een Xorg-sessie, ook nodig voor sommige programmatuur. Lees verder →

Linux 4.13 Released, This Is What’s New

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Linux Kernel 4.13 is officially out!

Announcing the release on the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML) Linus Torvalds says: “last week was actually somewhat eventful, but not enough to push me to delay 4.13,” going on to recount some personal issues involving a kidney stone — ouch!

“Go get the new kernel,” he encourages.

The next release, Linux 4.14, will be a Long Term Support (LTS) release.

Linux 4.13 Features

Among the Linux 4.13 features you will find the following hardware and software improvements:

  • Initial Intel Cannonlake & Coffeelake support
  • HDMI 3D/stereoscopic support in Nouveau driver
  • DRM object sync support
  • Thunderbolt improvements
  • Support for the Retrode2 joypad adapter
  • Support for the Razer Atrox Arcade Stick
  • Support for ASUS Zen AIO MD-5110 keyboard
  • Improved Intel SST Atom support
  • Misc file system improvements for Brtfs, EXT4, F2FS and XFS
  • AppArmor code commits from Canonical

Each kernel update adds support for new ARM devices/boards/SoCs and Linux 4.13 is no exception. It adds support for the Bubblegum 96, the Rockchip RV1108 SoC, and many of the newer Orange Pi boards including the Orange Pi Win, Orange Pi Zero Plus 2, and Orange Pi Prime.

For a fuller look at everything that’s new in Linux Kernel 4.13 head over to the official mailing list announcement and follow the links.

Install Linux 4.13 on Ubuntu

Only the brave and foolish will want to upgrade to Linux 4.12 on Ubuntu right now as it requires the use of mainline Linux kernel builds intended for Ubuntu developers to use in debug and testing. Undeterred? The UUKU app makes it easy to install mainline Linux kernel on Ubuntu.

Ubuntu 17.10 will use the Linux 4.13 kernel by default, while this kernel (or later) will be back ported to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS in the next point release.

Ubuntu 17.10 Will Use GNOME Shell 3.26

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Most of us expected that Ubuntu 17.10 would manage to with GNOME Shell 3.26 on board — but it’s nice to hear it confirmed.

A feature-freeze exception filed pending a package update last week has been approved, and now the first packages of GNOME Shell 3.26 are filtering out through the artful-proposed repository, ready for testing by users of the Ubuntu 17.10 daily builds.

“The Ubuntu Desktop Team wants to ship gnome-shell/mutter 3.26 with Ubuntu 17.10. The new version appears to improve responsiveness and has quite a few other improvements and tweaks,” the bug reads.

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