Yay! Linux controlled by Active Directory by default!
Ubuntu 21.04
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Re: Ubuntu 21.04
#52Released, but can't find the download link..
yeah, not even on the alternative downloads page. It reminds me of the story of how the Mono team had an issue in the downloads page that leads to some users download a 2yr old release of the Mono Framework.[0]
I found the downloads page[1] but it still says Beta, unsure what's going on.
Re: Ubuntu 21.04
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
With any open project, you can lean in favor of only working with other free things, or focusing on usable scenarios even with non-free software. My impression has always been that Ubuntu leans to the latter, trying to provide a working solution out of the box. This is why you can get PCs from enterprise PC vendors like Dell and HP shipped with Ubuntu.
Yeah, I think it's the right call as well for any distro that wants adoption. I'd love to use Debian, but even the "non-free" installer doesn't include drivers for my intel wifi card, and I don't think it's worth my time to try and do it all by hand. I still donate money to Debian though, because I know it's indirectly supporting Ubuntu.
Yeah, I work on a tool for Sandstorm.io called vagrant-spk, which uses Debian inside VMs, and that is pretty pleasant. But every time I've flirted with using a Debian distro for my dev machine under it, I've never gotten to the "installed working machine" stage. For what it's worth, my dev machines are usually random older consumer desktop PCs, solely intended to run Windows, but Ubuntu works fine out of the box on all of them.
Re: Ubuntu 21.04
#54Azure Active Directory support is pretty significant, means any company that uses Microsoft MDM can now support engineers who prefer linux machines.
I don't think it supports AAD, just AD. You got me way too exited for a minute.
It's kind of odd that they are advertising this now just as Microsoft is trying to get everyone to ditch on-prem AD. Is it just them saying "we ship SSSD in the default install now, so you can buy support from us!", or what?
Some way of signing into Ubuntu with a custom SAML provider would be very cool. Windows supports it via their "credential provider"[0] framework and Google uses that to provide sign-in for Windows with your GSuite credentials.
[0]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/secauthn/cred...
Re: Ubuntu 21.04
#55I wonder if there's a significant alternative to the current audio system in Ubuntu 20.04 -- PulseAudio+ALSA are awful? For a year now, I've suffered with the most frustrating breakdowns getting sound to pump out of the right interface without causing my machine to burn 200 watts to "compute" something. I love Linux, I love Ubuntu, I use it everywhere, but this little daily-frustration quietly drives me back to my in…
My ten second search shows 20.04 is too old for Pipewire to work well, but it works on 20.10 and presumably 21.04. It supposedly fixes the CPU usage issue you have, so relief may be available.
Re: Ubuntu 21.04
#56It'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 wo…
I've been using it with an AMD RX580 driving a 32" 4K monitor for a couple of years now and it just about works perfectly for my needs, including playing a few games through Steam. The only issue I have is that for some reason I occasionally cant alt-tab to the keepassxc window under gnome after I start it up. If you use Linux on the desktop and don't otherwise require an nvidia card (cuda, etc) it is worth while to switch to an AMD card or to spec one for a new build.
Re: Ubuntu 21.04
#57I still can't reconcile zfs in the installer. There's no warnings or information upfront about how you will make your filesystem into a nice brick if you upgrade your linux kernel and forget that your filesystem has to be manually upgraded with that kernel version.
Distros should not include filesystems that aren't in the kernel in their official installer. Fedora made the right decisions with btrfs. If users want zfs they don't need the official installer for it.
Re: Ubuntu 21.04
#58Whait what? ..and a Flutter application development SDK??
Re: Ubuntu 21.04
#59Thank 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.
Amen! Ubuntu is amazing! And keeps getting better every release! Big props to the Ubuntu team! My gratitude is endless for not having to use either Windows or Mac and still enjoy the desktop computer experience!
Re: Ubuntu 21.04
#60I still can't reconcile zfs in the installer. There's no warnings or information upfront about how you will make your filesystem into a nice brick if you upgrade your linux kernel and forget that your filesystem has to be manually upgraded with that kernel version. Distros should not include filesystems that aren't in the kernel in their official installer. Fedora made the right decisions with btrfs. If users want zf…
I disagree. Part of what I love about the Linux culture is that it gives me the freedom to tinker. The Ubuntu installer makes it absolutely clear that ZFS is still experimental, but it still lets me play with it. Granted, I swiftly broke my OS and moved away from ZFS when I tried it, but I like that it let me do that.