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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 22 2017, @08:48PM
There's fat binaries as well: Compile in all the dependencies.
This makes it possible to e.g. run very old apps under newer versions of Linux.
It also gets rid of the .deb|.rpm|many distros "problem".
(...and newer packaging paradigms have already made mention of this an anachronism.)
You can also put the fat-binary app on a thumbdrive and take it with you from Linux box to Linux box.
This sort of thing is done for Windoze-compatible (FOSS) apps over at PortableApps.
Those apps don't require installing DLLs or modifying the Windoze Registry.
Again: Having the source code available makes this possible for those devs.
Again: Closed-source proprietary apps always come in last when it comes to freedom for the user.
People who hold up their closed-source single-platform apps as some kind of shining example are the kind of people who would point to the chains their slave masters put on them and call that jewelry.
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