Ubuntu Linux 18.04.1 LTS Bionic Beaver available for download

[steven36]

Ubuntu is one of the most popular desktop Linux-based operating systems in the world, and rightfully so. It's stable, fast, and offers a very polished user experience. Ubuntu has gotten even better recently too, since Canonical -- the company that develops the distribution -- switched to GNOME from the much-maligned Unity. Quite frankly, GNOME is the best overall desktop environment, but I digress.

 

 

Today, Ubuntu 18.04.1 becomes available. This is the first "point" release of 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver. It is chock full of fixes and optimizations, which some individuals and organizations have been waiting for before upgrading. You see, while some enthusiasts will install the latest and greatest immediately, others value stability -- especially for business -- and opt to hold off until many of the bugs are worked out. If you are a longtime Windows user, think of it like waiting for Microsoft to release a service pack before upgrading -- sort of.

 

"If you’re already running 18.04 LTS, and you have been updating regularly, then you will already have all of these applied and so essentially you’re already running 18.04.1 LTS. The point release is an opportunity for us to make a new ISO image, and so people downloading and installing from the release of the new images will benefit from having those updates available immediately," says Will Cooke Desktop Engineering Manager, Canonical.

 

Cooke further says, "The first point release for an LTS comes out three months after release, and is also the time at which we enable upgrades from the previous LTS release. That is to say, if you’re running 16.04 LTS then you will be prompted to upgrade to 18.04 LTS from today onwards (there is a little lag between the ISOs being made available and the upgrades being enabled). The three month period provides us the opportunity to find and fix critical bugs before enabling upgrades for our LTS users who, by nature, expect a very reliable base OS.

 

If you are ready to download and create your Ubuntu Linux 18.04.1 installation media, you can get it here. Keep in mind: if you are already running 18.04 and are up to date on updates, there is no reason to download the ISO. If you are running 16.04, it may be time to take the plunge into Bionic Beaver when prompted.

 

More info here: Ubuntu 18.04.1 change summary.

 

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[Matt]

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[dMog]

been waiting to get into Linux again but want to put it on a stand-alone second notebook...need to find a good second hand one for cheap ..

 my experiences with linux in the past was  sort of hit and miss ..mostly miss but still not ready to give up...

[steven36]

1 hour ago, dMog said:

been waiting to get into Linux again but want to put it on a stand-alone second notebook...need to find a good second hand one for cheap ..

 my experiences with linux in the past was  sort of hit and miss ..mostly miss but still not ready to give up...

just stay away from nVidia graphics if you want less headaches ,  Booth Intel and AMD make really good  open source graphics drivers. I been using Linux now since 2015  but i still like windows too  so i dual boot on  my Intel  Dell mini Tower with Ubuntu Budgie and Windows... But on my big Gateway AMD i just have Linux Mint planing to put something else on it soon not sure yet  witch one. i need to get a bigger drive to dual boot it again. i have legal Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 on it as well i went and got the 8.1 keys out the BOIS with linux so i can run ether one both have a digital windows 10 license on all  3 of my PCs even my spare Windows 7 PC i do.  Also i have two laptops i never use i'm letting someone else here use one of them..  

[dMog]

yea I am looking to get a good used small sized notebook to use when I travel...just for the basics, email and storing my pictures I take when I am away... would never do banking on it, in any case, .got a buddy that I hope can get something for me along those lines 

[straycat19]

13 hours ago, steven36 said:

just stay away from nVidia graphics if you want less headaches

 

Personally I have been using Nvidia exclusively on my desktops and laptops for at least 10 years, without any problems.  I think it depends on your experience with linux.  I started using slackware, which was a command line linux, shortly after it was released in 1993, which makes it the oldest currently maintained linux distribution.  In the mid 90s I used Red Hat and in the early 2000s I used Suse.  I don't dual boot any of my systems because I have so many (35 at last count after I threw out some MacBook Pro 15s and some old generation 5 and 6 intel systems) and I like to keep them pure.  I have always made use of VMs to run other systems. Most of the distros today are modeled after windows in that they automatically detect and setup most, if not all, of your devices.  Therefore most linux users today don't have the knowledge required to manually setup a system for networking, printing, video, or audio or to tweak their configuration. 

[steven36]

3 hours ago, straycat19 said:

 

Personally I have been using Nvidia exclusively on my desktops and laptops for at least 10 years, without any problems.  I think it depends on your experience with linux.  I started using slackware, which was a command line linux, shortly after it was released in 1993, which makes it the oldest currently maintained linux distribution.  In the mid 90s I used Red Hat and in the early 2000s I used Suse.  I don't dual boot any of my systems because I have so many (35 at last count after I threw out some MacBook Pro 15s and some old generation 5 and 6 intel systems) and I like to keep them pure.  I have always made use of VMs to run other systems. Most of the distros today are modeled after windows in that they automatically detect and setup most, if not all, of your devices.  Therefore most linux users today don't have the knowledge required to manually setup a system for networking, printing, video, or audio or to tweak their configuration. 

Your full of shit Nvidia is the only company who want make better open source graphics  drivers so you have to use proprietary. They just came out with a fixed  driver  Nvidia 390.77 For users with older Nvidia GPUs, Nvidia released last month the Nvidia Legacy 340.107

https://news.softpedia.com/news/nvidia-390-77-linux-graphics-driver-improves-compatibility-with-latest-kernels-521997.shtml

 

You always have to wait on Nvidia too update there drivers  when they update kernels and the stack i use to have the same problem with AMD tell they got good open source drivers , I had to wait a year to use updated versions of Ubuntu and Linux Mint for them to get the better AMD Drivers   because they removed AMD Catalyst from Ubuntu ...Only way you could make it work with newer kernels was to use Arch or Manjaro witch a had a patched stack  with AMD Catalyst for newer kernels .

 

Nvidia has been crap on Linux for years because they want work with Linux to make good drivers and there  proprietary ones didn't get a major update so there way behind on Linux vs what they can do on  Windows with new hardware . While AMD has very good drivers for new hardware on Linux   Nvidia there the only ones that are like this you can get them to work but you will always have headaches and there not as good as AMD for Linux .  If you want to play games and stuff  on Linux best to use AMD. if you want to play games with Nvidia best to use a proprietary OS like Windows if you want  the best performance.

 

AMD and Intel  have good drivers in the Linux kernel and AMD have even better ones for newer hardware. Nvidia has crappy open source graphics  drivers so you will need to install proprietary if you can get the new stack to boot up with there crappy open source graphics  drivers on older hardware to install them if not you will need  do a lot of work to make it work .

 

I had a friend switch from NVIDIA SHIELD to Apple TV because NVIDIA is such a crap shoot on Linux for 4k viewing . You can buy new  expensive NVIDIA gaming hardware and play 4k videos on windows but dont it expect to be able to boot in Linux  and play 4k . But you can buy a cheap TV Box not NVIDIA and play 4k with  LibreELEC or Android Linux. He said his NVIDIA SHIELD it took everything it had to play 4k and  made noise and racket and Apple TV was quiet  when playing 4k.

 

What you did in the stoneage when people didn't even game on Linux and watched  Divx ,XVID and DVD  and people used old processors has nothing to do with today's tech .NVIDIA  proprietary drivers use to be the  best for gaming  on Linux a few years ago and that's the reason people dual booted windows to play games they just wasn't good enough   tell AMD came along and beat them  with  AMD Vulkan™ Graphics API   

 

Steam and AMD partnered up and steam even makes a Linux OS  and they release games on steam all the time  for Linux now and the scene release cracked ones too.

https://news.softpedia.com/news/new-steamos-stable-release-brings-latest-updates-from-debian-gnu-linux-8-11-522086.shtml

 

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[orbystorm]

22 hours ago, steven36 said:

Quite frankly, GNOME is the best overall desktop environment

This is a matter of opinion.You need so many extensions just to do what other desktop environments do by default.

Without the Gnome tweak tool its very basic.....It does look very clean though.

[steven36]

58 minutes ago, orbystorm said:

This is a matter of opinion.You need so many extensions just to do what other desktop environments do by default.

Without the Gnome tweak tool its very basic.....It does look very clean though.

I dont use Gnome and I never used Unity  I tried them both before and didn't like them I use  Ubuntu Budgie witch is there newest official flavor . I started   out with Linux mint Cinnamon  i like it OK  but I like Mate witch i have on my other PC better . I tired most all of them before expect for Deepen . My other PC  i use to install Linux on a external hard drive and i use to try a new version of Linux  all the time i had windows on my main hard drive and 2 versions of Linux on  my external hard drive. But my distro hoping days are over i just stick one i like on each PC and leave it.

 

The new versions of Ubuntu  if you know right much about Linux  you can do a minimal install and it want install  nothing but the basic stuff you need like a browser and you can pick out all the apps you want  that way you dont have to be uninstalling a bunch of apps you don't use.   my Ubuntu Budgie has no default apps but the browser but the bare minium that you had to install for it too work all my apps i use are picked out . Budgie and Cinnamon are both built on top of Gnome  witch both have plans to port over to QT  like KDE is . The guy who wrote that article in the open post is new to linux himself and that's just his opinion not mine.

 

Linus the guy who invented .Linux uses Gnome so do most businesses . Ubuntu are the leaders in the server world and they stop fooling with makeing Ubuntu phone there is no future in making smart phones with Android around. So it was not viable for them to keep Unity  as there main desktop because they switch from phones to IOT  so them dropping  Unity was a business discussion . After all they started out with Gnome.  

[knowledge-Spammer]

i maybe start to use this  and more like it as i am sure now so do RadiXX11 he learn me all the good things i need to learn about this more from him

[orbystorm]

59 minutes ago, steven36 said:

I tired most all of them before expect for Deepen

Manjaro Deepin is an excellent release and has a driver section that works fine with Nvidea  graphics too.

[steven36]

43 minutes ago, orbystorm said:

Manjaro Deepin is an excellent release and has a driver section that works fine with Nvidea  graphics too.

I only used  Manjaro  back when  Ubuntu dropped AMD Catalyst  because they patched the stack nice bunch of guys there and I'm a member of there forum, but i dont like rolling releases and AMD has good open source drivers now for my other PC . I stop using Manjaro when they dropped the patch  and upgraded the stack on me and messed up my install .By then Ubuntu had the AMD drivers I needed in the latest versions . For a year i could only use older versions of Ubuntu and i could not boot  in Ubuntu  in early versions of 16.04 they fixed that in a point release along time ago. So i took Manjaro for a spin  now they all will work on my older AMD PC .

 

Intel what I'm on now always had good open source drivers  and this PC is much newer it came with Windows 10 support  out the box it came out when Windows 10 was new Windows 8.1 upgrade to Windows 10 on the box ..i got a good deal on it because it was windows 8.1 . i done Windows 10 and Ubuntu Budgie 17.10  tell Ubuntu Budgie 18.04 came out so i put windows 8.1 and Ubuntu Budgie 18.04 on it and i'm not reinstalling no os on it no more unless something happens and I  blow up windows. I had windows 10  RS3 on it for 8 mths and stayed on Linux most all the time now I have Windows 8.1 again I use windows a lot again. 

[exodius]

Sad, its only available for 64 bit.