Fossa, not Fosse –
ZFS gets more accessible, security becomes a bigger priority, and Ubuntu speeds up overall.
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with all sorts of event and (hardware delays
That’s a running theme in Ubuntu, where much of what makes it great are small changes and new features that individually might not be remarkable but all together create a system that is fast, stable, and hard to beat. The security improvements offered this time around almost alone make Ubuntu a must-have upgrade.
More exciting, quite frankly, is the continued work on integrating ZFS into Ubuntu. There’s nothing new about the usefulness of ZFS, but usefulness is not necessarily the same as usability. Ubuntu’s developers have put a lot of work into making ZFS easier to use, both in terms of making backups via snapshots and the arguably more important part of easily restoring your system using those snapshots.
New ZFS features in this release include zfs 0.8, which supports hardware accelerated encryption and some performance gains among other things. But the more interesting addition is Ubuntu’s Zsys
utility, which essentially makes it easier to see what’s happening under the hood.
Flathub , you’ll need to install the Store from the repositories since the snap version of Ubuntu Software does not include the Flatpak plugin. Other changes in this release include major updates for all the usual suspects, both desktop apps and included tools like ruby and python. And note that the system Python is now at 3.8. Since it reached end-of-life, Python 2.7 has been moved to universe and is not included by default. (Page:) (1) (2) Next →
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