Version 21.10 of Xubuntu, a distribution that integrates Ubuntu's base system with the latest
version of the Xfce desktop, has been released.
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"The Xubuntu team is happy to announce the immediate release of Xubuntu 21.10. Xubuntu
21.10, code-named Impish Indri, is a regular release and will be supported for 9 months,
until June 2022. If you need a stable environment with longer support time we recommend that
you use Xubuntu 20.04 LTS instead. Highlights: Xubuntu now comes pre-installed with GNOME
Disk Analyzer, GNOME Disk Utility and Rhythmbox; Disk Analyzer and Disk Utility make it easier
to monitor and manage your partitions; Rhythmbox enables music playback with a dedicated media
library; Pipewire is now included in Xubuntu and is used in conjunction with PulseAudio
to improve audio playback and hardware support in Linux; Keyboard shortcuts - the Super (Windows)
key will now reveal the applications menu, existing Super+ keyboard shortcuts are unaffected.
Known issues: the shutdown prompt may not be displayed at the end of the installation."
And another update of Canonical's operating system, Ubuntu 21.10 Impish Indri, is coming
out. Check out the news and find out where to download the distro.
Yes. Canonical has finally released Ubuntu 21.10 – the latest iteration of one of the
most popular open source operating systems. In this article, we'll look at what's new
in Ubuntu 21.10 Impish Indri and how you can update it.
What's New in Ubuntu 21.10 Impish Indri
Dubbed “Impish Indri”, Ubuntu 21.10 has been in development for six months and comes
as an update to Ubuntu 21.04 “Hiruste Hippo” which will come to an end in January 2022.
Ubuntu 21.10 is compatible for the next nine months until July 2022, therefore, is the
obvious upgrade choice. The biggest new addition to Ubuntu 21.10 “Impish
Indri” is the GNOME 40 desktop environment. This is the first Ubuntu release to ship with
a full GNOME 40 desktop, as the Ubuntu 21.04 release only offered GNOME 40 applications
on top of GNOME Desktop Environment 3.38.
So Ubuntu users will finally be able to enjoy the redesigned GNOME 40 Activities Overview
with dynamic horizontal workspaces, new touchpad gestures, more immersive application navigation
and launching, and much more.
However, Activities Overview is not enabled by default and Ubuntu 21.10 does not use the
GNOME 40 dock.
Ubuntu 21.10 maintains the same look and feel as it was used since 2004 with the release
of Ubuntu 11.04 “Natty Narwhal”, ie with the Ubuntu Dock on the left side of the screen
and the menu bar at the top of the screen.
Speaking of look and feel, Ubuntu 21.10 introduces an improved Yaru theme to accommodate the
GNOME 40 desktop environment and removes the mixed light and dark theme from the Appearance
panel in System Settings, which was used in previous versions.
Another big change in Ubuntu 21.10 is the Firefox browser as a Snap package by default.
The main advantage of Firefox Snap is that Ubuntu users will get new versions the same
time they are released upstream, but it also improves web browser security by being a sandboxed
application.
On the downside, it appears that Firefox Snap has a known rendering process crash that occurs
when switching virtual endpoints or resuming from sleep.
Canonical claims this is caused by the same issue that makes WebGL non-functional in Wayland
sessions.
This issue is said to be fixed in the next release of Firefox 94, which is scheduled
for release on November 2, 2021, so that, as a temporary workaround, users can switch
to the Firefox 94 Beta channel using the snap refresh firefox --betain-app command Terminal.
Note that Firefox Snap is not used by default in official Ubuntu flavors such as Kubuntu,
Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu MATE or Ubuntu Kylin.
However, Canonical will force Firefox Snap on all official Ubuntu releases, starting
with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
Also new in Ubuntu 21.10 is support for the proprietary NVIDIA graphics driver in the
Wayland session, support for LDAC and AptX Bluetooth codecs, as well as Bluetooth HFP
profiles for better Bluetooth audio quality with PulseAudio 15 and PipeWire, and systemd
now uses “ unified” cgroup hierarchy (cgroup v2) by default.
This is also the first Ubuntu release to offer an alternative live ISO image that features
the next-gen Ubuntu desktop installer written in Google's Flutter SDK.
Users can test the new Ubuntu Desktop Installer using the Ubuntu 21.10 Canary images from
here .
Under the hood, Ubuntu 21.10 is powered by the Linux 5.13 kernel, which features early
Apple M1 support, support for upcoming Intel and AMD chips like Intel Alderlake S or AMD
Adebaran, support for Microsoft Surface laptops and tablets, support for Kernel Electric Fence
(KFENCE), and more.
"Enabled by default [KFENCE], Ubuntu 21.10 will randomize the kernel stack memory location
on each system call entry on the amd64 and arm64 architectures with minimal performance
impact."
However, the 5.13 Linux kernel is no longer supported by upstream. It reached end of life
on September 18, 2021, which means Canonical will try to support it until the end of life
of Ubuntu 21.10, backing up the latest security patches from the main kernel.
Of course, users are free to upgrade to the 5.14 Linux kernel.
Ubuntu 21.10 also comes with an updated toolset consisting of GCC 11.2, GNU C Library 2.34,
GNU Binutils 2.37, LLVM 13, Golang 1.17, rustc 1.51, PHP 8.0.8 and OpenJDK 18, all of which
are greatly improved every day developer security awareness in low-level programming.
According to Mark Shuttleworth:
“As open source becomes the new standard, our goal is to bring Ubuntu to every corner
of the company and everywhere developers want to innovate. Open Source is the springboard
for new ideas and Ubuntu makes that springboard safe, secure and consistent.”
On the server side, Ubuntu Server 21.10 comes with OpenStack Xena, Open vSwitch 2.16, Chrony
4.1, Containerd 1.5.5, QEMU 6.0, Libvirt 7.6, OpenLDAP 2.5.6, Apache 2.4.48, Corosync 3.1.2,
Runc 1.0. 1, BIND 9.16.15 and Telegraf 1.19.2.
In addition, resource agents and sealing agents have been divided into curated and non-curated
agents.
For Raspberry Pi users, Ubuntu 21.10 brings support for Sense HAT (can be installed using
sudo apt install sense-hat) and Sense HAT desktop emulator (can be installed using sudo
apt install sense-emu-tools).
To top it off, this release removes support for Raspberry Pi CM3 due to lack of storage
capacity.
This is the final interim release before the next Ubuntu LTS, scheduled for release in
April 2022 and supported at least until 2032.
For more details, the Ubuntu 21.10 release note can be found at this address:
Ubuntu Release Notes
The release notes for the official flavors, however, can be found at the following links
(some of the addresses are still being published in the source and being updated in this article,
so please be patient): Ubuntu Budgie
Download and try Ubuntu 21.10 Impish Indri If you already use the system, use the tutorial
below to update it: How to update to Ubuntu 21.10 via terminal
(server and desktop)
For new installs or updates using media, the Ubuntu 21.10 ISO image can now be downloaded
by going to the distribution's download page .
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