Ubuntu 26.10 Beta released with Linux 7.3 & GNOME 51

17 days ago by auzy1 to c/linux

The beta release of Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stringray) is now available for download – a week later than planned. Ubuntu 26.10 Beta runs on the Linux 7.3

ahmedezat_katteb 5 points 17 days ago

For anyone testing the beta, the two lower-level changes are probably the ones most worth poking at before the 15 October release, since they're the ones most likely to break things silently rather than visibly:

Rust coreutils is now complete, including cp, mv and rm. If you have backup scripts, deploy scripts or anything that parses the output of these tools or relies on less common GNU flags, run them on the beta now and report differences upstream to uutils. Behaviour differences in edge cases (symlinks, sparse files, odd permissions, error messages) are exactly what a beta is for.
dbus-broker replacing dbus-daemon: mostly invisible, but if you have custom D-Bus policy files or services that do unusual things on the session bus, it's worth checking the journal for warnings after login.

The OOM change (core desktop processes getting lower OOM scores) sounds like a genuine quality-of-life fix for anyone who's had the whole session killed while a browser ate all the RAM.

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victorz 2 points 17 days ago

Parsing the output of rm, cp, mv, and such tools seems volatile. Better to use their return codes, no?

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auzy1 1 point 17 days ago

I'm a fedora user actually, but, I'm actually a fan of the Coreutils rewrite. And, you're definitely right for pointing it out.

Some of the responses I saw regarding the rewrite were absolutely ridiculous though (there were people claiming they'd add certain parameters behind subscription model, etc, which wouldn't be possible).

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LouNeko 3 points 17 days ago

Hope Kubuntu catches up quickly. The new Kerner version is supposed to finally include proper Mediatek integrated WiFi/Bluetooth Chip drivers.

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auzy1 2 points 17 days ago

I'm sure they will.

Also, someone on the kde team mentioned they're working on something similar to quick look in dolphin too (which I'm really looking forward to). I actually switched back to gnome because it was missing

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LouNeko 3 points 17 days ago

I love that we have both options.

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auzy1 1 point 17 days ago

Yeah. Honestly, things about kde still feel a bit clunky to me in the interface, like in settings, you have kwin (which should be easier for users to understand). Don't call it kwin, just call it desktop effects or something as an example

The biggest issue with gnome though is gnome extensions break every update.

They should take the 10 most common extensions and integrate them into the core desktop. That would fix 99% of the issue with gnome. Similarly, KDE should focus on simplifying the default settings and interface, and bury the more advanced settings a bit more.

Both are great products.

Cosmic is also really cool, but, I found the keyboard focus for me doesn't follow the windows, so I'm always typing in the wrong window

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