| ▲ | Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) released(lists.ubuntu.com) |
| 34 points by dgavrilov 2 hours ago | 40 comments |
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| ▲ | antonyh an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| I personally consider Ubuntu an irresponsible choice. They hold back security updates unless you subscribe to Ubuntu Pro with the 'esm-apps'. I'd rather use a distro that doesn't apply a ransom to security updates. |
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| ▲ | someothherguyy 2 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-pro-faq/34042 -- they don't do that really | |
| ▲ | longitudinal93 a minute ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | It's free for personal use on up to 5 machines | |
| ▲ | sekh60 44 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I agree, since that move I've migrated everything I had running on Ubuntu to Debian, with the exception of my big blue button VPS whose installation script is really tied to it. | |
| ▲ | blablabla123 39 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Ubuntu is surely controversial but no, security updates aren't paid. ;) Well, unless you need an LTS that cannot be updated for whatever reasons for 10 years. Or for people that need an extra FIPS approval. | |
| ▲ | torben-friis an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Is Ubuntu pro just a paid extension for the LTS? If so, why pay for that rather than upgrading? Honest question. | | |
| ▲ | esseph an hour ago | parent [-] | | May not be able to easily replatform the application running on top of the 5-10yr server or VM. LTS also only covers core OS components with security updates, not the 30k+ packages available in the repo... | | |
| ▲ | torben-friis 29 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Yeah I can see a niche situation where it's helpful, it's just surprising to me that it's a common enough case to make it a business line. | | |
| ▲ | sverhagen 19 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Someone may run into some issues upgrading their one server, and decide to power through it. Enterprises create a project plan, have meetings, get QA involved, identify risks, mitigate them, need sign off from the security team, not just on the new Ubuntu version, but they may talk themselves into re-certifying the entire bla-di-blah. For them it makes economic sense (in the short term) to just pay for the support plan that keeps them "compliant" and comfortable on the current version. And this, among other things, is why I like the agency that small companies should be able to offer you. |
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| ▲ | stackskipton 29 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | Sure, but if you are such a situation, then paying for Operating System is probably cheaper than paying engineering time to fix it. Also, most stuff these days could probably be shoved into a container and thus extremely distro/version agnostic. All applications need maintenance. Either you do it at application level to keep on top of its dependencies or you do it at OS/3rd party level. Either way, someone wants to get paid. | | |
| ▲ | esseph 27 minutes ago | parent [-] | | > Sure, but if you are such a situation, then paying for Operating System is probably cheaper than paying engineering time to fix it. Yes, that is the entire point of what I said. > most stuff these days could probably be shoved into a container and thus extremely distro/version agnostic It depends on if it's an in-house app or managed and built by a 3rd party (may void contract). Also depends on the risk of life/monetary loss if something goes sideways. |
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| ▲ | stackskipton 39 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | What? Ubuntu Non-LTS, which this release is, support window is 9 months of support and LTS is 5 years free + 5 years paid. That's well spelled out here: https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle You can also just upgrade your LTS and continue to get support for free. | |
| ▲ | philipallstar an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | How do they compare with Debian for the same updates? | | | |
| ▲ | liamgm 19 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | sound like FUD, ubuntu don't hold back security updates for their LTS distro , move to newer LTS one if you wanna secure your system, same goes to Debian or RedHat or Windows , who wanna maintain older Debian 9 security or Windows 7 secuity update. | |
| ▲ | esseph an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > I personally consider Ubuntu an irresponsible choice Absolutely. Injecting ads into the desktop and cli, having a package manager that runs as a root service, their decades of poor upgrade testing, etc. I have never found them to be trustworthy when other, better options exist. | |
| ▲ | throwaway613746 28 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | [dead] |
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| ▲ | ilaksh 29 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I still remember when I found out about Ubuntu 100 years ago. It's clear to me that Ubuntu is no longer in fashion. So what is popular these days? From what I heard, I think it's Fedora or Arch (such as Omarchy), but only with some slick UI stuff like Hyprland and Caelestia. |
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| ▲ | bayindirh 17 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | If it's a server: Debian Stable or Rocky Linux (choose according to taste). If the person can put in the work and doesn't need bleeding edge software: Debian Stable. If the person can put in the work, the machine is in a secure environment, not going to serve anything and is a desktop system: Debian Testing. If the person can't put the work and wants something working: Fedora. If the person wants to dive deeper: Arch, Gentoo, LFS. Note: Debian needs some work not because it doesn't work out of the box, but it doesn't do any customization on packages. So tailoring things according to your taste takes time. Then it becomes so customized it almost reads your mind and feels like home. | |
| ▲ | jckahn 20 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Why does fashionibility matter? It's an OS, it just needs to work well. Ubuntu still does that. | | |
| ▲ | hbn 6 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | The popular OS is more likely to be either directly tested by people writing software, or already have bugs filed/fixed for edge cases because more people are using it. | |
| ▲ | bayindirh 14 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | > Ubuntu still does that. Debatable. - Snaps.
- Replacing something battle-tested with something written in Rust, MIT licensed, with 140 CVEs and other bugs (uutils).
- Pulling rugs and replacing debs with snapswithout telling it, because "it creates positive pressur e on the snap team and drives the quality higher".
- Staggered rollout of some updates, so update is there but you can't update because the your system didn't feel like updating yet.
- Promising to open source Snap store to allow alternative stores and forgetting what they had said.
- Bullying Debian to push their changes to Debian to offload software maintenance (they wanted to make netplan the default in Debian, for example).
... etc, etc.Note: You can disagree with this, and we can discuss this with cool heads, if you prefer. | | |
| ▲ | Aperocky 3 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | I see your point is basically snap bad. And as a software maintainer who publish to all distributions, I wholeheartedly agree. | |
| ▲ | _joel 6 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | Snaps did it for me, that's when I moved away to plain Debian. | | |
| ▲ | bayindirh 4 minutes ago | parent [-] | | I never used Ubuntu outside VMs to test Ubuntu-specific stuff. I used to have a colleague who installed Ubuntu as defacto server OS, but I replaced them with Debian step by step. |
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| ▲ | hbn 24 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I recently revived my old gaming PC from 2015 and I wanted to install Pop!_OS cause that was the cool new-ish one everyone's been talking about. But I straight up could not get it to install on my hardware (I think my GTX 970 is too old for official support) I ended up installing Mint and it's Good Enough™ | |
| ▲ | josteink 24 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Whatever just works. Ubuntu used to be the Debian that just worked without tweaking. Today I find Debian to be the one which’s works without tweaking, and Ubuntu the one where one has to undo/disable lots of Ubuntuisms. So for me: Server is Debian. Laptop is Arch. | |
| ▲ | slickytail 16 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | [dead] |
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| ▲ | throw0101c 22 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Seems that this release still allows for coreutils (rm, cp, etc) to come from the GNU folks in addition to the Rust-based uutils: * https://packages.ubuntu.com/stonking/coreutils See "Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils" from last month: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49696697 |
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| ▲ | erelong 39 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Used to love Ubuntu but they dropped X11 support so I'm out (I'm fine with Wayland for those who want it but it still breaks things I've used) |
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| ▲ | OroPla 38 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I left ubuntu back during the unity desktop days. It was a great desktop for beginners, but not my cup of tea. Since then they put ads in their operating system and embraced these nonsensical snap packages, so I'll never go back to ubuntu. Instead, I'll probably move everything over to Void next. |
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| ▲ | calgoo 11 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Im on Void Linux and using X11 too. While i do a lot of my config using an LLM these days, i do find the system simple again. No SystemD, no wayland etc (This works. great for me as im on a desktop with a AMD GPU and well supported HW. If i was on a laptop i would use Wayland probably). |
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| ▲ | eu an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| just upgraded an old notebook from 16.04 to 18.04 :)
i’m surprised they kept the files up for such a long time. |
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| ▲ | wongogue an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | The oldest commercially supported release at the moment is 14.04 so of course they will have the files. | |
| ▲ | luipugs an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | ...but why? |
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| ▲ | josteink 27 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Ubuntu started doing too much weird or non-standard stuff, so i moved all my servers to Debian. Previous releases was MIR, Upstart, Snapd… This release it’s no X11 and GNU Coreutils replaced by buggy Rust rewrites. Debian feels more like pure FOSS and in general just better. None of that icky flavour in the back of your mouth. |
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| ▲ | aframemodular 27 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Reminds me of the "Stonky Kong" meme |
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| ▲ | jadar 37 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] |
| stonks? |
