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Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine) released

Ubuntu has announced the release of 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" in desktop and server editions as well as all of the different flavors: Ubuntu Budgie, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Studio, and Xubuntu. "The Ubuntu kernel has been updated to the 5.3 based Linux kernel, and our default toolchain has moved to gcc 9.2 with glibc 2.30. Additionally, the Raspberry Pi images now support the new Pi 4 as well as 2 and 3. Ubuntu Desktop 19.10 introduces GNOME 3.34 the fastest release yet with significant performance improvements delivering a more responsive experience. App organisation is easier with the ability to drag and drop icons into categorised folders and users can select light or dark Yaru theme variants. The Ubuntu Desktop installer also introduces installing to ZFS as a root filesystem as an experimental feature." More information can also be found in the release notes.

From:  Adam Conrad <adconrad-AT-ubuntu.com>
To:  ubuntu-announce-AT-lists.ubuntu.com
Subject:  Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine) released
Date:  Thu, 17 Oct 2019 17:25:11 +0000
Message-ID:  <20191017172511.GZ23788@0c3.net>
Cc:  ubuntu-release-AT-lists.ubuntu.com
Archive-link:  Article

Codenamed "Eoan Ermine", 19.10 continues Ubuntu's proud tradition
of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a
high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at
work through this cycle, introducing new features and fixing bugs.

The Ubuntu kernel has been updated to the 5.3 based Linux kernel, and
our default toolchain has moved to gcc 9.2 with glibc 2.30. Additionally,
the Raspberry Pi images now support the new Pi 4 as well as 2 and 3.

Ubuntu Desktop 19.10 introduces GNOME 3.34 the fastest release yet with
significant performance improvements delivering a more responsive
experience. App organisation is easier with the ability to drag and drop
icons into categorised folders and users can select light or dark Yaru
theme variants. The Ubuntu Desktop installer also introduces installing
to ZFS as a root filesystem as an experimental feature.

Ubuntu Server 19.10 integrates recent innovations from key open
infrastructure projects like OpenStack Train, Kubernetes, and Ceph with
advanced life-cycle management for multi-cloud and on-prem operations,
from bare metal, VMware and OpenStack to every major public cloud.

The newest Ubuntu Budgie, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE,
Ubuntu Studio, and Xubuntu are also being released today.

More details can be found for these at their individual release notes:

    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EoanErmine/ReleaseNotes#Official_...

Maintenance updates will be provided for 9 months for all flavours
releasing with 19.10.


To get Ubuntu 19.10
-------------------

In order to download Ubuntu 19.10, visit:

   https://ubuntu.com/download

Users of Ubuntu 19.04 will be offered an automatic upgrade to 19.10.
For further information about upgrading, see:

   https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop/upgrade

As always, upgrades to the latest version of Ubuntu are entirely free
of charge.

We recommend that all users read the release notes, which document
caveats, workarounds for known issues, as well as more in-depth notes
on the release itself. They are available at:

   https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EoanErmine/ReleaseNotes

Find out what's new in this release with a graphical overview:

   https://ubuntu.com/desktop
   https://ubuntu.com/desktop/features

If you have a question, or if you think you may have found a bug
but aren't sure, you can try asking in any of the following places:

   #ubuntu on irc.freenode.net
   https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users
   https://ubuntuforums.org
   https://askubuntu.com


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   https://discourse.ubuntu.com/contribute


About Ubuntu
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Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine) released

Posted Oct 18, 2019 5:02 UTC (Fri) by muwlgr (guest, #35359) [Link] (3 responses)

Luckily, Ubuntu upstream still maintains i386 builds, and does not switch from LXDE to LXQt out of sudden. Time to prepare for upgrade of Ubuntu 18.04 to Debian 10 or 11

Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine) released

Posted Oct 20, 2019 11:07 UTC (Sun) by epa (subscriber, #39769) [Link] (2 responses)

Well, calling it i386 is a bit of a misnomer. It’s more like i686 these days. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2016/05/ms...
Though I understand the name is traditional.

Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine) released

Posted Oct 21, 2019 2:00 UTC (Mon) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

It's been awkward to install Debian on the eee701 (ostensibly a pentium 3-M) for some time, because the default kernels assume every i686-class processor supports PAE36, and Intel was in an especially spiteful mood when it designed this CPU. At least the nopae kernel-image packages are still maintained…

Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine) released

Posted Oct 21, 2019 17:56 UTC (Mon) by smcv (subscriber, #53363) [Link]

Debian's "architecture" names really describe ABIs rather than CPU functionality levels, and i386 uses the same System V calling conventions that it did when "real i386" CPUs were still supported, so it's still called i386, despite the baseline CPU (the oldest CPU you can run it on) having risen over time. The architecture name would only change if we made an incompatible change, like passing floating-point function parameters in SSE registers instead of on the stack or enlarging time_t to 64 bits.

The relationship is a bit clearer on ARM, where we've had arm (little-endian OABI), armel (little-endian EABI softfloat), armhf (little-endian EABI hardfloat) and armeb (big-endian OABI). Each of those ABIs has/had a baseline CPU that evolved over time: armel originally required at least armv4t but now requires at least armv5t, dropping support for older CPUs but retaining the same ABI and calling conventions on the newer CPUs that it still supports.

In official Debian packages, the armhf baseline is armv7. Raspbian rebuilds Debian with an armv6 baseline (to be able to run on the Raspberry Pi version 1) but still uses armhf as its architecture name, because binaries from Debian and Raspbian use the same calling convention and can interoperate (on an armv7 or better CPU).

Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine) released

Posted Oct 18, 2019 17:51 UTC (Fri) by butcher (guest, #856) [Link]

In the middle of a clean install of 19.10 on a 2-core AMD/2GB machine, the regular ISO did a bunch of locking up. Watching the file retrieval phase using the mini.iso now, after stepping through the ncurses menus like I was back in the Slackware days. Feels like the comfortable sneakers you wear to mow the lawn... :D

Eoan Ermine

Posted Oct 19, 2019 10:01 UTC (Sat) by pr1268 (guest, #24648) [Link] (1 responses)

AKA a short-tailed weasel native to Ireland from the East.

Wow... Ubuntu seems to be getting more arcane and obscure with the release names.

Eoan Ermine

Posted Oct 20, 2019 19:56 UTC (Sun) by sb (subscriber, #191) [Link]

Perhaps they'll go the other way with 23.10 (Morning Minx).

Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine) released

Posted Oct 24, 2019 12:47 UTC (Thu) by mgedmin (guest, #34497) [Link]

If anyone upgrading to 19.10 has Virtualbox installed, be sure to upgrade to the latest 19.04 kernel *and reboot* before starting the upgrade process, otherwise you'll get a failed upgrade. Don't be like me and think you can save one reboot by batching all the updates.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox/+bug...

(TBH it's annoying when rebooting requires you to unplug the external USB drive so that the BIOS wouldn't lock up hard during boot.)


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