Effective immediately, the new release of Ubuntu, 17.10, aka 'Artful Aardvark' has been released!
This release will be supported for 9 months (until 2018) for Long Term Support, stick with release 16.04, instead.
Official flavors (e.g. Kubuntu) are also released.
See the above release notes for a full list of changes and where you can get a copy.
[Full disclosure: the majority of SoylentNews' servers run Ubuntu 16.04 LTS though we have taken steps towards moving to Gentoo.]
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The customized version of GNOME that Ubuntu 17.10 uses is very much in the mould of the (now defunct) Unity desktop, so it won't be to everyone's tastes.
(Score: 2) by Whoever on Monday October 23 2017, @03:45AM (1 child)
$60k: so you mean cheap software?
I work in an industry where a single seat can cost $500k to $1M and more.
None of that high end software runs on Windows. It never has. There was a transition from Unix (mostly Sun) to Linux as Sun dropped into irrelevance and Linux on x86_64 became available. Before that, it ran on VAXes or IBM mainframes.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Monday October 23 2017, @08:44AM
If you pay a million, there's a good chance your vendor cares what you think. No CAM vendor cares about what any individual customer wants, they only care about the big picture and the bottom line. Reprogramming from scratch to add Linux support doesn't support that.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek