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Ubuntu 24.10 Now Available With Linux 6.11, GCC 14 & Other Upgrades

([Ubuntu] 3 Hours Ago Ubuntu 24.10)


The [1]Ubuntu 24.10 "Oracular Oriole" ISOs are now officially available as the newest six-month update to Ubuntu Linux.

Coming off the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS cycle, Ubuntu 24.10 delivers a wealth of exciting updates. Ubuntu 24.10 is powered by the Linux 6.11 kernel, upgrades to GCC 14 as the default compiler, and has a wealth of other software updates like systemd 256.5, OpenSSL 3.3, Netplan 1.1, OpenJDK Java 23, Microsoft .NET 9, Python 3.12.7, the GNOME 47 desktop, and more.

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Ubuntu 24.10 also adds experimental NVMe/TCP support to Ubuntu Server, the Ptyxis terminal emulator is now packaged up, reverse PRIME support has been improved, the Sysprof profiler is installed by default, various Snap improvements, frame pointers being enabled for more packages, NVIDIA Wayland by default, and an assortment of other changes.

Ubuntu 24.10 can be downloaded right now from [3]releases.ubuntu.com .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Ubuntu+24.10

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=2024&image=ubuntu_2410_lrg

[3] https://releases.ubuntu.com/24.10/


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With the news that Nancy Reagan has referred to an astrologer when planning
her husband's schedule, and reports of Californians evacuating Los Angeles
on the strength of a prediction from a sixteenth-century physician and
astrologer Michel de Notredame, the image of the U.S. as a scientific and
technological nation has taking a bit of a battering lately. Sadly, such
happenings cannot be dismissed as passing fancies. They are manifestations
of a well-established "anti-science" tendency in the U.S. which, ultimately,
could threaten the country's position as a technological power. . . . The
manifest widespread desire to reject rationality and substitute a series
of quasirandom beliefs in order to understand the universe does not augur
well for a nation deeply concerned about its ability to compete with its
industrial equals. To the degree that it reflects the thinking of a
significant section of the public, this point of view encourages ignorance
of and, indeed, contempt for science and for rational methods of approaching
truth. . . . It is becoming clear that if the U.S. does not pick itself up
soon and devote some effort to educating the young effectively, its hope of
maintaining a semblance of leadership in the world may rest, paradoxically,
with a new wave of technically interested and trained immigrants who do not
suffer from the anti-science disease rampant in an apparently decaying society.
-- Physicist Tony Feinberg, in "New Scientist," May 19, 1988