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Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by fomine3 »

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…

> Unlike Debian Testing, CentOS Stream is _not_ a hybrid between major releases of RHEL (say, RHEL 8 and RHEL 9). It's frozen to a major release.

Thanks, I recognized it first! It should be more clearly advertised.

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by fomine3 »

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 love Groovy Gorilla, the words and wallpaper.

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by jagger27 »

watt wrote: post #289
jagger27 wrote: post #34

Somewhat related: I’ve been using GNOME 40 on my Arch-based desktop and it’s really slick. It’s making the switch from macOS a little less painful. Looks like it didn’t make into this release. Completely unrelated: I just discovered Rofi (extensible Spotlight-ish launcher for Linux) and it’s lovely, especially when bound to Super+Space.

What is "super" ? Do you have some special keyboard?

It’s the generic term for the Windows or Command key.

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by [deleted] »

kbrwn wrote: post #259
dralley wrote: post #253

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Which you have to pay for, just like RHEL. >ESM is available through an Ubuntu Advantage for Infrastructure subscription for physical servers, virtual machines, containers and desktops, and is free for personal use. https://ubuntu.com/security/esm Note that if you click through "personal use" means "up to 3 machines" and obviously doesn't apply to infrastructure. RHEL has free "personal use" subscriptions too, except…

The fact is if someone wants to run a Linux host for 10 years with security patches they can with Ubuntu. They cannot with CentOS Stream. Yes, they could switch to RHEL and pay for security patches but RHEL is a different OS than CentOS Stream.

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Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by [deleted] »

kbrwn wrote: post #259
dralley wrote: post #253

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Which you have to pay for, just like RHEL. >ESM is available through an Ubuntu Advantage for Infrastructure subscription for physical servers, virtual machines, containers and desktops, and is free for personal use. https://ubuntu.com/security/esm Note that if you click through "personal use" means "up to 3 machines" and obviously doesn't apply to infrastructure. RHEL has free "personal use" subscriptions too, except…

The fact is if someone wants to run a Linux host for 10 years with security patches they can with Ubuntu. They cannot with CentOS Stream. Yes, they could switch to RHEL and pay for security patches but RHEL is a different OS than CentOS Stream.

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Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by [deleted] »

bayindirh wrote: post #217
dralley wrote: post #206

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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 benefi…

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Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by ChuckNorris89 »

lawik wrote: post #237
fanatic2pope wrote: post #56

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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…

There will be no new builds. There is no hardware :)

Fortunately that's not entirely true.

In my neck of the woods (Central Europe, so not a place with cheap and abundant hardware like North America or Asia) you can find plenty of decently priced hardware in stock if you're an educated consumer and willing to look around.

Sure, you won't find any discrete GPUs anywhere at MSRP thanks to mining and scalpers, BUT, you can find golden nuggets like the Zen2 based 6-core 4650 Pro Ryzen APUs for 220 Euros which is a cracking CPU with good integrated graphics, or you can buy a gaming laptop with the latest gen 8 core Ryzen 5800H and an RTX 3060, 16Gb RAM and 512Gb SSD for about 1200 Euros or even less which IMHO is insane value for this level of performance considering the current apocaliptic market.

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by 1337shadow »

simias wrote: post #200
1337shadow wrote: post #75

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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…

The move is pretty transparent to me, when CentOS was effectively "free RHEL" many people who didn't feel they needed support just ran CentOS in lieu of RHEL knowing that they'd get near-100% compatibility without paying a dime. The fact that it's a rolling release is not really the problem per-se, it's more that you can no longer expect that CentOS n == RHEL n . It's not a drop-in replacement. You can't expect that…

> And I'm 100% certain that it's exactly what RedHat/IBM counted on: no more free candy, just buy a license.

Do you mean that it's not 100% Open Source anymore? That you can't build your RHEL anymore?

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by cmm »

simion314 wrote: post #50
pawelduda wrote: post #21

I tried Wayland on 20.10 a few month ago and concluded it wasn't ready for daily use. The worst thing is that it would RANDOMLY cause Gnome to restart while closing all my applications. Also the cursor was jumpy and laggy sometimes (especially when opening context menus). Is anyone aware if these issues still happen?

>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.

Yes. Someone decided that having one process be the display server (which in the x11 world is separate) and the desktop shell, and have said desktop shell be able to run basically arbitrary js code, is going to work well. And it mostly does, as long as you are foregoing the js extensibility part; otherwise (at least in my personal experience) it's a complete disaster.

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by pjdkoch »

whitepoplar wrote: post #265
pjdkoch wrote: post #241

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Yep, I saw a checkbox for that.

Just to clarify, that's for the server ISO, not the desktop ISO? I know that as of 20.10, ZFS on root was available on desktop ISOs but not server ISOs.

I've only used the desktops installer. No clue about the server one.
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