Today we look at Ubuntu 24.04 Long Term Support (LTS). This is the flagship of the Ubuntu Flavors and is based on GNOME 46. There are many other flavors of Ubuntu which provide support for KDE, LXQt, MATE, Budgie, Cinnamon, Unity and Kylin. There are even curated flavors of Ubuntu for education and Audio/Visual and Creative Artists. Ubuntu is the most popular linux distro and sometimes the most controversial within the Linux community. Canonical is fearless when it comes to trying out new ideas.
Chapters
00:00 - Intro
00:13 - Ubuntu Support
02:46 - Flavors of Ubuntu
04:29 - System Requirements
05:37 - What's new in Ubuntu 24.04
07:03 - Ubuntu Apps
07:35 - Ubuntu 24/04 Subsystem
07:57 - Ubuntu changes to Kernel 6.8
09:15 - Walkthrough
17:07 - Benchmarks
21:42 - Final Thoughts
24:23 - Outro
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Thanks for another great review! This is my favorite channel. I really appreciate all the useful information presented concisely, which is rare elsewhere on YT.
Much appreciated, @40GrandBattery
I did a fresh install today and was very happy that it picked up the Nvidia 550.67 driver during install for my 4070 Ti Super. So far no issues, but haven’t done much with it yet.
The xz version number is very easy to explain. You cannot easily automate the downgrading of packages in apt. If you revert the version number back to 5.4.5 or whatever then apt will not install it over 5.6.1. Since the compromised version 5.6.1 was published in the development repos for Ubuntu 24.04, and some Ubuntu systems in development picked up the bad version, the only way to get them to upgrade to the fixed version of xz is to give the fixed version a version number higher than the version number in the bad version. Debian did the exact same thing in their unstable release -- a version number of 5.6.1+really5.4.5. The *stable* releases of Debian never got 5.6.1 in the first place, which is why they're still on 5.4.1. Why didn't they go up to 5.6.2? Because the upstream developer hasn't released 5.6.2 yet.
Yep, and all that was pulled from upstream Debian, and done according to Debian’s policy manual…so if anything, the complaints should be directed at Debian. This also means that Lynis absolutely did give a false positive - if they don’t want to consider that a false positive, then they shouldn’t claim the ability to analyze Debian package version numbers.
Sounds like the devs are lazy to me. You can always fix a version number, the question is will they go through the proper amount of effort to do it.
@@CyberGizmo sure, you can always fix a version number, the question is how fast. Eventually the upstream maintainer has stated that they will release xz 5.8, where the 5.8 version number indicates the fixed version.
Great review speed!
Can you start a strategic dicussion on having a privacy respecting phone for the public? There are so many technical, economical, bussiness and social facets and parties involved in this. We really need to sit down and look at the scope of what needs to be done before attempting anything.
I'm still very happy with MX Xfce. Runs like muck of a stick, smooth.
I literally just upgraded to 22.04 lts. Gotta give those lts time to be adopted.
me too stuck on how to get too 24.04 through Ubuntu. Im a noob
The 24.04 LTS is on ubuntu releases website show all releases but the main website is not updated yet! got relesed 2 hours ago
Thanks for the review. Ubuntu and Kubuntu 22.04 have been very solid for me. Unfortunately, I found Xubuntu 22.04 to be buggy. I'm looking forward to trying the new 24.04.1's. 🙂
I'm using Ubuntu server with openbox. Idling around 400 MB.
Idle at 400GB of RAM??? I presume you mean 400 megabytes lol. What sort of mods you running with OpenBox for 400 GB idle usage 🤯
@@masterTigress96 Yeah, mistake corrected.
I’ve been working with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS having been using Ubuntu 22.04. Some software will not currently work on Ubuntu 24.04 like with 22.04, like VMware workstation 17 player, or screencast like Kazam, the synaptic package manager can be installed, it works fine, some software like recon-ng won’t install, some software simply won’t work currently on Ubuntu 24.04, ClamAV, LMD maldet , lynis, chkrootkit, gufw, protonvpn, tor browser, nmap, nikto, and a number of others currently can be installed
You mentioned snaps vs deb installs. Is there any difference in application speed, system resource use, etc? A snap should be more stable are there any other advantages? I have heard there may be difficulties with upgrades to 24.04 because of using a 64 bit time stamp and all that goes with that. Might be better to wait till 24.04.1 even for upgrading from 23.10. 64 bit time gets us past 2038 but I would think if all the applications are being up dated anyway, it should just work. user files for things like cron are written in a month day hour minute format (human readable) maybe there are some that save things as 4bytes.
Speed difference, there used to be a first time start up difference, but that was corrected awhile back, no difference in speed, but some users have reported lack of features in snaps. I agree its always better to wait for the first patch release of any new OS, unless you really want to try out the new stuff :)
Thanks!
👍!
Should there not be a Ubuntu Server in the 24.04 list?
does not have the apps that are included in the testing i guess
So can we be sure it's not an affected version of xz? Have you had the time to verify or do we have to trust the ambiguous package name to be a nice package ? 📦
I have not done any analysis of the xz package, I've been working on adding some new capabilities to the home server farm.
I've moved permanently to Kinoite and MicroOS. I'm hoping Ubuntu has something up their sleeve for an immutable. That's the way to go. Awesome Vid DJ !
Ubuntu Core Desktop was originally supposed to release around 24.04 but that fell through. Ubuntu Core Desktop basically snap-ifies the whole system, desktop and below. Not just programs. It might be the only way Snaps are used to their fullest potential, by having all of the individual stacks of the operating system put into their own isolated snap package bases.
Use a COW and a backup strategy (which you should there as well) and you don't need to go through the hassle of immutable
i updated my ws to ubuntu cinnamon 22.04.4 LTS last night - no complaints so far. i didnt even break anything this time :) ill probably hold off on upgrading my laptop tho. it's a newer machine and wasnt exactly easy to get working the way i like with linux drivers
I'll be seeing how things settle, and hope to upgrade my 23.10 system Soon ™.
Hah, I was looking at the list of updated "big packages" and saw LibreOffice 24, I thought "That can't be right, I've got 7...?" Now it makes sense. I guess.
But... it is a false positive. Distributions often use conventions like majornum.minornum-packagever to issue hotfixes. That version installed does not have the bug, so... it's really neither lynis's "fault" or Ubuntu's, it's just a limitation, it's just a consequence of a non-Ubuntu-specific tool, using a.rather blunt-force method of "detecting" issues with your system. Distributions also have their own infrastructure and calendar, and often must make choices when including an unexpected hotfix to a package. I doubt their benchmark for naming conventions is "Does lynis understand it." I guess I understand the emotional satisfaction of seeing a high number, but if you're getting a lower score than your system "deserves" due to a distro-specific naming convention issued for a "quick fix"... well, I dunno what else you'd call it. Many tools require a rational actor at the keyboard to interpret results. :-)
I never look at GUI tools for software installation... but if Ubuntu ever goes strictly snapd, I'm moving back over to Fedora.
Thanks for another awesome and informative video!
Is it out yet? I am in Denmark and here it is not out yet.
Yes its official
Seems like ubuntu really trying to go up against fedora eh.... i still think fedora is a much more professional system compared to ubuntu, I always have. I'm gonna be checking out some atomic iso from fedora and sliverblue, it's really taking my interest and this rpm-ostree layering sounds interesting ... though the flatpak only to install apps is a bit meh.
Fedora always seems to be buggy to me. Ubuntu has always been reliable since the last two months of using it. Btw, I'm a newbie using Linux. How can you call an OS targeted for professionals if its not reliable?
Fedora tends to release more often, and have newer (read: less tested) packages, because it is the staging ground for RHEL. I used Fedora for many many years; it is a fine system. For my desktop I use Ubuntu for the last few years, for various technological reasons that may or may not apply to anyone else.
Enterprise prefer LTS because you can skip distro version upgrades, and it's theoretically more stable.
According to the webpage all flavours are community
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Each distro is a 'flavour' of Linux. Ubuntu is a distro with a myriad of it's own 'flavour'. Imagine the confusion to the Linux beginner!
Is it UH-buntoo or YOU-buntoo
i have a pronunciation spinner I use.
Oo-boon-too, is the legit real african way of pronouncing it. Anything else is corruption by others.
Its "oo-boon-tooo" - all three "u" sounds are the way he pronounces the last one. Like you would say "goose" - the last syllable is a little longer.
edited: OO-boon-too, @pietskiet3595 is absolutely correct! They made a big deal teaching user how to pronounce it way way back when the first version was release and you could order an actual CD from Canonical and they would mail you an envelope with 5 or 6 copies to distribute to your friends and family. God that was a long time ago...
@@pietskiet3595 its a dumb name anyhow lol
Kubuntu 24.04 will stick to plasma 5.27.x .... It's annoying really (but will be very stable - I have found Kubuntu 23.10 to be very stable)
True, but I can understand it.
kde is not stable in general it has a copy and paste bug since the 4x days and still remains in kde 6x. I use kde a lot and daily drive this DE, but i will say it is one buggy DE. Hopefully finger cross a lot things get iron out in 6.1. I know it suppose to fix explicit eync rendering for the nvidia gpu so hopefully that fix issues i have on one of my box. Though AMD gpu are also not the solution either as I have bugs with that gpu as well and as well as my thinkpad with intel graphics.
@@CRYPTiCEXiLE Kubuntu 23.10 is the most stable desktop ive ever used. And i'm using it on my work laptop and and home for gaming
Didn't notice great difference while using plasma 6 for almost 2 months, so I don't really mind.
I too found Kubuntu to be one of the better flavors. I actually had to install Kubuntu and then add Cinnamon in order to get function, installing Cinnamon flavor would never work correctly with GTX-3050, for what reason I have no idea...
First, like a new released kernel.
I thought the bot that corrects the pronunciation of Ubuntu would have hit first....LOL
linuxmint is really good, I won't switch to ubuntu again
15:01 which I also pointed out... so... anyways... Canonical needs to fix that version numbering for sure
While Ubuntu is still for some work use, some pro users might look at Arch or even the more independent distro, Void Linux.
I don't like the Ubuntu pro ads on startup when you install ubuntu 24.04 this reminds me of windows 11, also it ask to collect data another windows 11 like feature.. wow i thought i was using a linux system not a wndows 11 os.... ubuntu really change a lot i miss 4.10 to 10.10 ubuntu... man those where the bestest ubuntu ever.
Well, I'm never using Ubuntu again. Sticking to Fedora for workstation and Debian for server.
To be fair, Windows 11 doesn't show ads on startup.
@@Omar-jn9zf About the only place it doesn't. 😆
You can literally see the first report that would be sent. It's a bare minimum of hardware information. There is absolutely no comparison between that and the and highly invasive data collection done by Microsoft.
@@kneppernicus "I'm never using Ubuntu again, btw" moment. Cringe
You said 22.04 at the beginning of the video
thank for sharing sir!!!! love your work
usually i go for Ubuntu Studio but all ok