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posted by mrpg on Saturday October 21 2017, @04:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the alliterative-animals dept.

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.]

Also:

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.

OMGUbuntu


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  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Saturday October 21 2017, @05:02PM (5 children)

    by Gaaark (41) on Saturday October 21 2017, @05:02PM (#585699) Journal

    When i get a new system (i guess i should say, if i ever get a new system at the rate i'm saving) i'll have to try ubuntu out again, for shits and giggles, on a dual-boot.

    For now, i'll stay with Arch/Manjaro//i3/budgie/xfce: i need the quickness.

    I. still. miss. Corel. linux.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 21 2017, @09:24PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 21 2017, @09:24PM (#585783)

    As I recall, that wasn't a Live CD (where everything would run from the plastic disk).
    You had to install it to give it a try. 8-(

    ...and ntfs-3g wasn't working until 2007, so, on an eXPee/NTFS box, you'd have to make a FAT32 partition to use a file with both Windoze and Linux.

    What was especially nice about Corel Linux?

    -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

    • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Sunday October 22 2017, @10:45AM

      by Gaaark (41) on Sunday October 22 2017, @10:45AM (#585929) Journal

      It was auto-magical: everything worked out of the box for me. No messing with config files, was pretty.

      Basically, the Ubuntu of back then.

      It was scary enough for MS to shut it down.

      Just....memories, basically. Great memories. And Canadian!

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 22 2017, @02:06AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 22 2017, @02:06AM (#585843)

    I dual booted my new Windows 10 preloaded laptop a year ago thinking I would switch back to Windows for games. I never did. Now I am working out how I can blat the Windows partition nicely to have another version of Linux on the hardware instead of in a VM

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 22 2017, @02:33AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 22 2017, @02:33AM (#585849)

      Now I am working out how I can blat the Windows partition nicely to have another version of Linux on the hardware instead of in a VM

      I heard that gparted (the GNOME Partition Editor), which comes with just about every Linux distro, can handle the task.

      I've also heard that you should only use MICROS~1 tools on MICROS~1 partitions these days.

      Feedback from those who who have tried both|either would be interesting.

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      ...and is "blat" a new thing in common usage now?

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 22 2017, @01:35PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 22 2017, @01:35PM (#585947)

        Sure. Last time I logged back into Windows just to change the partitions without buggering up the whole disk. The Windows partition is reporting as being "locked" (wtf), so right now I am seriously considering just wiping the whole disk and starting again. One partition for Linux daily use, one for Linux 32 games, another for Linux 64 games ((fixing .so issues drove me nuts)), and a blank partition for Windows 7 if ever needed maybe dedicate 70GB for it.