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Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by temp667 » Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 4:05 PM UTC

I know the Fedora Council has really come out against Stallman and has announced a number of steps Fedora will be taking against Stallman and FSF. This was in connection with an RMS open letter. You can read the open letter here:

"Richard M. Stallman, frequently known as RMS, has been a dangerous force in the free software community for a long time. He has shown himself to be misogynist, ableist, and transphobic, among other serious accusations of impropriety." - https://rms-open-letter.github.io/

Because of his history of abuse (per Fedora) Fedora will not attend any FSF events, will not attend any event Stallman attends and will not attend any events by any Organization Stallman is connected with.

Has ubuntu taken a similar stance? I couldn't find a similar Ubuntu open letter on this.

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

#132

Post by Koffiepoeder » Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 4:05 PM UTC

gmaster1440 wrote: post #4

Azure Active Directory support is pretty significant, means any company that uses Microsoft MDM can now support engineers who prefer linux machines.

To be honest I'm not a fan of this. Linux was one of the few ways to stay free of the behemoth of corporate, invasive crapware that is forced upon employees. By evolving towards a full enterprise managed OS (with stuff like AD) this freedom will more and more be corrupted.

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by vetinari » Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 4:08 PM UTC

oaiey wrote: post #33

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.

Marketing speech ;) .. but money definitely has been changed hands. Active Directory has its own share of problems, but the benefit of having a central location for policies which enforce them on the connected machines is a security plus despite the addition of attack surface by itself. While I first thought that AD integration regards group policy looks like a hard architecture mismatch, it is interestingly not. Tak…

From a quick look into the policy files, they map the GPO settings into Gnome dconf keys.

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

#134

Post by boyadjian » Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 4:10 PM UTC

I use Ubuntu LTS as a HTPC/NAS, it runs smoothly 24h/24, very happy with it

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

#135

Post by lucis » Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 4:12 PM UTC

2pointsomone wrote: post #129

I have been following the Ubuntu homepage for about 15 years, and it's so interesting how they went from prominently promoting every CTA around downloading the desktop version, to now, where I had to spend 5 minutes trying to find a link on their site to the ubuntu.com/desktop site.

For me it was ubuntu.com -> Hover on Download -> Click on the green button below Ubuntu Desktop.

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by xbar » Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 4:13 PM UTC

lovedswain wrote: post #111

e12e wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why 19.10? (I mean, why not 20.04 lts?)

Because I'm running it of course.

I don't run Ubuntu. If I did, your question has convinced me I would be happiest on an LTS version. 5 years of not changing much is more in line with my level of interest in puttering around my OS settings than every 9 months.

https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

#137

Post by intergalplan » Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 4:14 PM UTC

CrazyPyroLinux wrote: post #80

simion314 wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>The worst thing is that it would RANDOMLY cause Gnome to restart while closing all my applications. Question: Is this a GNOME architecture issue? I hope KDE could avoid this issues, atm on Xorg I can restart the window manager and the desktop shell without losing any data.

> Is this a GNOME architecture issue? Yes. And always has been since like forever ago. I'm all for choice and diversity, but I've personally never understood all the love and excitement and attention that GNOME has gotten ever since Canonical got behind it and dropped Unity. I'm certainly not it's target audience - running XFCE, LXDE/LXQT, and i3/Sway over the years - but it really gobsmacks me to hear the cheerleadi…

What's surprised me about modern Gnome is how much heavier and worse-performing it is than... KDE. What a reversal compared with the Gnome2 days.

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

#138

Post by junippor » Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 4:15 PM UTC

bboozzoo wrote: post #24

junippor wrote: post #2

https://www.debian.org/

Are you suggesting that debian.org links or should link to Ubuntu's release announcement?

I'm suggesting that anyone using Ubuntu would be better served by using debian :-) Thanks for asking :-)

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

#139

Post by Spivak » Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 4:15 PM UTC

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #61

wyldfire wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not real familiar with this stuff but I could've sworn that linux has been able to join Active Directory domains via samba for a long time.

I know you can, in a very basic sense, such that one can log in, after both setting up the OS, and then configuring the domain join after installing additional components. But there's two key things here: > Ubuntu machines can join an Active Directory (AD) domain at installation for central configuration. This means it's now a ready-to-go functionality of the OS, and can be done simply without going to read a blog ar…

> I know you can, in a very basic sense, such that one can log in.

Log in, get group and netgroup membership, apply GPO based access control, access ssh keys, apply sudo rules.

> after both setting up the OS, and then configuring the domain join

    realmd join ad.example.com

Just the same as joining the domain on a Windows machine.

    Add-Computer -Domain ad.example.com

> Rather than hand-crafting one Ubuntu server that connects to your AD... And this means one can deploy Ubuntu machines on an Active Directory network at scale

Huh?!? Are you manually joining every machine to the domain and manually configuring every machine by hand? Even if you don't want to bother with config management like Chef/Puppet/Ansible for post-install config you at very least could have leveraged preseed files to automate the install, domain join, and applying your configs.

Like it's great that Ubuntu is supporting a subset of GPO but just like in the Windows world you can't configure everything with it and still need SCCM and Linux has solutions abound for that functionality.

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by fiberoptick » Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 4:15 PM UTC

Koffiepoeder wrote: post #132

gmaster1440 wrote: post #4

Azure Active Directory support is pretty significant, means any company that uses Microsoft MDM can now support engineers who prefer linux machines.

To be honest I'm not a fan of this. Linux was one of the few ways to stay free of the behemoth of corporate, invasive crapware that is forced upon employees. By evolving towards a full enterprise managed OS (with stuff like AD) this freedom will more and more be corrupted.

Well, at companies that actually care about 100% rollout of "corporate, invasive crapware" on computers that _they own_ and that are used to process _company data_ and access _company resources_, the alternative is usually just to ban Linux workstations altogether.

I see this as a strict improvement for adoption of Linux workstations in the corporate world