#manticminotaur — Public Fediverse posts

Ubuntu 23.10 is Available to Download, This is What’s New

Get ready to grab the bull by the horns as Ubuntu 23.10 ‘Mantic Minotaur’ is now available to download. This update is a short-term release supported by 9 months of ongoing support, bug fixes, and critical app updates. While it may not sound long (because it isn’t, all told) remember that Ubuntu 24.04 is out in April 2024 as a long-term support release with 5 years of support. Summarising Ubuntu 23.10 in just one word is tricky, but ‘refinement’ feels an apt choice. GNOME 45 brings a bevvy of buffs to the core desktop experience; improved window tiling; a sharper-looking :sys_more_orange:
#News #AppCenter #Gnome45 #ManticMinotaur #Ubuntu23_10

:sys_omgubuntu: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/10/ubuntu-23-10-new-features-download-link

TPM-backed #FullDiskEncryption is coming to #Ubuntu

Based on Ubuntu Core’s FDE design, we have been working on bringing TPM-backed full disk encryption to classic Ubuntu Desktop systems as well, starting with Ubuntu 23.10 ( #ManticMinotaur ) – where it will be available as an experimental feature. This means that passphrases will no longer be needed on supported platforms, and that the secret used to decrypt the encrypted data will be protected by a #TPM and recovered automatically only by early boot software that is authorised to access the data.

Is Ubuntu 23.10 Too Minimal?

The next version of the world’s most popular desktop Linux operating system (that’s Ubuntu, for those of you playing dumb) will come with less software available out-of-the-box. Current daily builds of Ubuntu 23.10 instead offer a minimal platform pre-populated with just a handful of apps. These cover only the most basic of basic computing needs. For anything else the idea is that we, the user, fire up the Software Store and install what we want ourselves. As an idea, it’s not without merit. But in practice, I think it’s a possible misstep. Basic as a Feature The Ubuntu 23.10 experience :sys_more_orange:
#News #Opinion #DefaultApps #ManticMinotaur #Minimal #Ubuntu23_10

:sys_omgubuntu: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/09/ubuntu-23-10-minimal-mistake

‘Significant Changes’ to PPAs Coming in Ubuntu 23.10

The way PPAs are managed is changing in Ubuntu 23.10. A new version of the software-properties package is rolling out to Mantic Minotaur daily builds. The update makes brings a “significant change” to the way personal package archives (better known as PPAs) are managed on Ubuntu systems. What’s changing? Well, in current versions of Ubuntu when you add a PPA (via the command line — you can add them via Software & Updates but I’m not sure how key handling works there) a .list file for the PPA is created in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/, and the corresponding gpg keyring placed at /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d. :sys_more_orange:
#News #Development #ManticMinotaur #Ppas #Ubuntu23_10

:sys_omgubuntu: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/05/significant-changes-to-ppas-coming-in-ubuntu-23-10