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Why You Can't Currently Download Ubuntu 23.10 - OMG! Ubuntu
Today, Ubuntu 23.10 is available to download — or rather it was. If you're only just waking up/getting around to downloading Ubuntu 23.10 you'll have
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Happy 19th Birthday, Ubuntu!
Today is Ubuntu's 19th birthday! Yes, you read that right: nine-freakin’-teenth. October 20, 2004 was when Ubuntu 4.10 arrived, codenamed 'Warty Warthog'
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Soldato
23.10 is back to being available to download.
Sticking with 22.04 LTS for now.
Tried going onto Windows purely for the game support but just find Ubuntu so much more of a smoother experience. Windows by comparison is janky dog ****.
Totally agree about Windows. I have to use it for work and it's just a horrible experience.
Are upgrades from 23.04 to 23.10 enabled yet?
In general software installed via snaps and flatpak can be more up-to-date.
Snaps are native to Ubuntu. Flatpak you have to install.
Due to security concerns some developers have shunned snaps and only release as flatpak like Keepassxc for example.
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Having updated to the latest release Mantic Minotaur the new Firmware Updater utility keeps popping up letting me know there is a "UEFI Dbx - UEFI revocation database" update.
No other information is really available for it so I don't quite know what it is offering me.
I have applied the latest bios update for my mobo so I am a bit perplexed what it could be offering me and I am wary to run the upgrade in case it breaks something.
Do we really need Ubuntu (or any os for that matter) to manage our firmware?
If I apply some open source firmware, how does that work when it comes to updating it again from official sources...???
No other information is really available for it so I don't quite know what it is offering me.
I have applied the latest bios update for my mobo so I am a bit perplexed what it could be offering me and I am wary to run the upgrade in case it breaks something.
Do we really need Ubuntu (or any os for that matter) to manage our firmware?
If I apply some open source firmware, how does that work when it comes to updating it again from official sources...???
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Soldato
Ubuntu isn't trying to manage your firmware, it's telling you the revocation database is out of date, it's trying to help you not brick anything around secure boot / boot loader stuff.
Take a look at:
Secure Boot dbx Configuration Update 77 - 371 Ubuntu 23.10
I've a message starting popping up after the upgrade to 23.10 from 23.04, that I've got some updates. Turned out that this is that in the sub. Tried to update and it fails. This is what I've got ru...
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Impossible to update UEFI dbx
My Ubuntu (20.04) Software is prompting a new firmware available: UEFI dbx 77--> 217 (?), but when I try to update I receive the following error message: Impossible to update UEFI dbx. Blocked
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They don't seem to be backing down on snap.
Soldato
Competition is good, LXC/LXD still has some good advantages, but I widely agree that Docker/K8s has won the overall battle, but Kubernetes is much more complicated overall I would say. This almost looks more like a smaller less functional version of Openstack if anything, LXD, Ceph and OVN. I'd be interested in how Ceph performs within Snaps, as I know one of the perceived issues is performance. I haven't really used Snaps as of yet, so can't say if it's a legitimate concern.
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Has anyone had any success with installing Ubuntu on an external drive? I managed to install mint on an external ssd and it installed fine. I have decided to try out kUbuntu instead but every time I install it no bootloader is put on the external drive. I have tried a full install to the ssd and manually setting the partitions but all have failed. I can’t/don’t want to remove all drives from my pc as my windows drive is under the gfx card. Ubuntu also does not install this is driving me mad.
Canonical Microcloud: Simple, free, on-prem Linux clustering
As Ubuntu approaches its 20th anniversary, some more of its pieces may be Snapping together
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More info here on MicroCloud.
Canonical's Steam Snap is Causing Headaches for Valve - OMG! Ubuntu
Canonical may be ramping up its efforts to improve the Ubuntu gaming experience — yasss — but it seems their Steam snap package is causing a few headaches
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Steam is fed up with snap issues.