Ubuntu 21.04 • Hacker News Board

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by suby » Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 2:20 PM UTC

It's interesting to see Wayland enabled by default.

I'm curious to know what state Wayland is in nowadays, especially regarding how well it works with Nvidia cards. The last time I tried it out was around 2017ish when Fedora enabled it by default. It was 100% not ready then as it wouldn't even boot into the desktop with my nvidia card.

Is it actually ready now? Does it work with nvidia cards? Does GPU acceleration work with nvidia cards? Are apps launching via xwayland gpu accelerated / working as expected? It sounds like OBS and some screenshot programs work now which is nice.

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by kentiko » Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 2:20 PM UTC

vikbytes wrote: post #6

Looks like their download page has not yet been updated to offer 21.04? https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop

You can find 21.04 here: https://www-ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions/Ubuntu/relea...

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by Spivak » Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 2:21 PM UTC

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #5

Holy crud, I can just straight up join this to my domain? This is world-changing. There is a GPO template. I think I'm in love.

You always could! sssd’s ad integration has been really solid for years and if you have a huge number of machines you can stand up FreeIPA establish a trust between them.

The thing that’s changing with this release is the ability to support some GPOs with adsys. sssd has/had some basic gpo support as it relates to auth but not really for system config.

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by z5h » Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 2:21 PM UTC

I’ve been away from Linux for a while. So Microsoft is involved here, and Google’s Dart/Flutter is also a key foundational component? Am I understanding that right?

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by devit » Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 2:21 PM UTC

Have they sold the company to Microsoft?

"Microsoft SQL Server on Ubuntu delivers an optimised, cost-effective database platform"

Of course not, it's not free so it's not cost effective compared to the best database, which is PostgreSQL.

Integration with Active Directory group policy seems also a really bad idea since it allows insecure proprietary software to control your Linux machines.

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by cyberlab » Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 2:22 PM UTC

> Firefox, OBS Studio and many applications built with Electron and Flutter take advantage of Wayland automatically, for smoother graphics and better fractional scaling.

I think it's great that Firefox is bundled with Ubuntu, but I have to manually update Firefox each time a new release comes out because the version that's installed is a canonical-controlled version that stays 'stuck' on a old version and doesn't have an auto-update mechanism.

Other than that, I love the OS. I use it as my daily driver since it has a good community around it, and if you're having trouble, there is a good community-powered Q&A site for it.

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by kbrwn » Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 2:22 PM UTC

Thank you to Canonical for keeping Ubuntu a free and open source operating system with long term support! With the death of CentOS (replaced by an unstable upstream of RHEL) it means a lot to the Linux community.

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by scaladev » Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 2:23 PM UTC

kentiko wrote: post #12

vikbytes wrote: post #6

Looks like their download page has not yet been updated to offer 21.04? https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop

You can find 21.04 here: https://www-ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions/Ubuntu/relea...

These are all beta images.

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by madars » Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 2:24 PM UTC

cyberlab wrote: post #16

> Firefox, OBS Studio and many applications built with Electron and Flutter take advantage of Wayland automatically, for smoother graphics and better fractional scaling. I think it's great that Firefox is bundled with Ubuntu, but I have to manually update Firefox each time a new release comes out because the version that's installed is a canonical-controlled version that stays 'stuck' on a old version and doesn't hav…

Running nightly comes with tradeoffs, but I've had great experiences with firefox-trunk from https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mozilla-daily/+archive/ubuntu/... which is maintained by Ubuntu developers.

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by ocdtrekkie » Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 2:25 PM UTC

devit wrote: post #15

Have they sold the company to Microsoft? "Microsoft SQL Server on Ubuntu delivers an optimised, cost-effective database platform" Of course not, it's not free so it's not cost effective compared to the best database, which is PostgreSQL. Integration with Active Directory group policy seems also a really bad idea since it allows insecure proprietary software to control your Linux machines.

Any good central policy management is better than none. If you have a Windows-based network, Linux machines represent a serious security risk, because they're less managed. The more managed Ubuntu can be in a Windows environment, the more feasible it is to start switching workloads to run on Linux without compromising security.

And plenty of business apps straight up require Microsoft SQL Server. You should be thrilled those now no longer need a Windows license, just the SQL Server license.