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Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by x86_64Ubuntu »

Spivak wrote: post #161
xorcist wrote: post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> preseed files to automate the install, domain join, Genuine question, wouldn't that require a kerberos ticket to work? Or at least some high privilege password that you might not want to keep around your preseed files? Bootstrapping trust is a tricky problem. Most that I've seen tend to go with some custom solution.

Yes, but you can really tighten that privilege in practice. Yes having the ability to create computers in AD is potentially dangerous but in our deployments all the "AD Join Account" can do is create, delete, and reset computer passwords in one specific OU that new computers are moved out of once provisioned. We don't broadcast the join password and rotate it every so often but we also don't really care if it gets ou…

Hmm, I ran into the same issue too whereby I had a manual step to join the computer to the domain. I only had one computer to join, so I couldn't use anything like a real secrets solution, but I also didn't want the password to be in the Ansible files.

Having an OU that computers are provisioned in, and then moved out of later on would have help me a lot.

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by kd913 »

ufo wrote: post #182
fisting wrote: post #166

I know it's meant to be a hippopotamus, but the default desktop background just reminds me of a couple of hairy testicles. https://res.cloudinary.com/canonical/image/fetch/f_auto,q_au... Definitely changing that after install, I don't want to be greeted by a giant parcel of pubes when I log in.

I miss the Hardy Heron wallpaper. That one was very beautiful and invited me to switch to Linux.

Disco dingo had some amazing wallpapers and name.

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by hansel_der »

bayindirh wrote: post #195
Ottolay wrote: post #184

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Why don't people make the effort to just move to Debian Stable? If you don't want to pay any money, relying on Redhat's goodwill always seemed precarious.

Because there's a big software stack from drivers to scientific software which is being developed for 10+ years (or even longer) for RH based distributions, or for CentOS/ScientificLinux specifically Software development and verification is huge in scientific computing. It's not just "Meh, let's port it in a weekend and be done with it".

> It's not just "Meh, let's port it in a weekend and be done with it"

maybe time to get on with it.

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by ravi-delia »

aendruk wrote: post #208

The content of this page is obstructed by a full-viewport modal employing dark patterns to get me to enter into some agreement with Canonical. Why so hostile?

Unlike many sites of it's kind, the expanded settings page defaults to everything turned off, allowing the user to just save preferences without clicking individually. I personally think that's a good compromise, especially when you have lots of options if you really hate cookies.

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by pacoverdi »

julianlam wrote: post #201
pacoverdi wrote: post #124

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Thanks for the tip. Just tried it. Looks nice but suffers from the same problem as Ubuntu 21.04: laggy with fractional scaling. But fractional scaling with Nvidia did not work at all before 21.04 so I guess there is progress.

What level of scaling are you using? I tried turning on "large text" in Accessibility settings, which functions like 1.25

I tried 125% and 150%, both modes are too slow for me

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by ncann »

neither_color wrote: post #202
fisting wrote: post #166

I know it's meant to be a hippopotamus, but the default desktop background just reminds me of a couple of hairy testicles. https://res.cloudinary.com/canonical/image/fetch/f_auto,q_au... Definitely changing that after install, I don't want to be greeted by a giant parcel of pubes when I log in.

Do hippos even have notable amounts of hair? lmgtfm Unlike most other semiaquatic animals, hippos have very little hair. The skin is 6 cm (2 in) thick, providing it great protection against conspecifics and predators.

That's actually the first thing I noticed. Hippo is totally not hairy like that at all. In all the videos of hippos that I've seen they always have smooth skin.

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by bayindirh »

dralley wrote: post #206
bayindirh wrote: post #174

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Hey: Please read the answer to this comment first. It contains some very important clarifications . Leaving the comment up for completeness, context and admittance of error. Happy reading. --- Disclaimer: We use CentOS on almost all of our servers at production level for 10+ years. The main problem with CentOS is not moving into a rolling release schedule, but change of its place in the ecosystem. Before, CentOS was…

Disclaimer: I work for Red Hat >CentOS makes the Beta & RC testing and RedHat gets more thoroughly tested patches and, that's it. CentOS is moving to a Debian Testing meets Arch Linux position. It's neither stable as Debian Testing, Nor supported like Arch and lacks any official support and possibly no security patch support. This isn't correct. Debian Testing is a true rolling release distribution for the next "majo…

Daniel, thanks for the comment and clarifications in (Googled your twitter account for your first name, hope that's OK).

Actually, the initial communication of this issue was so vague from our perspective, so this is what I and my colleagues understood.

Again, thanks for clarifying, because I personally don't want to bash CentOS, but want to understand what's happening and continue to use it. Maybe it would be beneficial to disseminate this in a more visible and more understandable way.

> And further - where did you hear that CentOS Stream didn't receive security patches? That false...

I didn't hear, but as I said, CentOS Stream was presented as a proving-grounds distribution and, I understood that it'll receive security updates in a best-effort basis.

The news came in a crashing way and the initial roadmap didn't communicated well to the outside world in the beginning. To be frank, a lot of people felt betrayed by IBM/RH. When a company announces a big paradigm shift and cuts the support for the latest release at the end of the year without further explanation besides marketing speak, thinking otherwise is pretty hard.

Hope you understand the frustration.

Cheers

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by dang »

curt15 wrote: post #156
nickthemagicman wrote: post #59

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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!

Why was the above comment downvoted?

It looked like bad sarcasm to me when I first read it. Perhaps other people thought the same.

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by rofrol »

Tomdarkness wrote: post #43
suby wrote: post #11

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 wo…

From what I understand after briefly looking into this earlier this month the issue seems to be basically NVIDIA want to push their own buffer API (EGLStreams) rather than use the buffer API developers are actually using (GBM). If you use one of the "big" compositors like GNOME or KDE I believe they have sort of added EGLStreams support so you can use it on NVIDIA but it's not perfect. If you use a more niche one, e.…

NVIDIA will use DMA-BUF instead of EGLStreams https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-4...

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by galgalesh »

1337shadow wrote: post #75
kbrwn wrote: post #17

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.

I fail to see how moving to a rolling release strategy results in any kind of "death", seems like FUD to me. Rolling release, trying to stick to upstream releases as closely as possible, works well with Arch Linux, I'm glad CentOS learned from Arch Linux success. DISCLAMER: I'm not even a CentOS user, but I just like what RH does and has done for "the Linux community" as you call it (I would just call it "society" bu…

Centos was mainly used as a "free but otherwise identical" alternative to RHEL. Centos typically attracted an incredibly conservative and stability-focussed crowd. People who wanted all the benefits of a stable enterprise distro but who didn't want to pay and who didn't need support.

Whatever your personal preferences are, it's obvious that this change doesn't fit well with that crowd.

Red Hat has every right do do that change, but we shouldn't pretend that this is a good fit for the traditional centos crowd.

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