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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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> The day people think linux would be better served by somebody else (FSF
> being the natural alternative), I'll "abdicate". I don't think that
> it's something people have to worry about right now - I don't see it
> happening in the near future. I enjoy doing linux, even though it does
> mean some work, and I haven't gotten any complaints (some almost timid
> reminders about a patch I have forgotten or ignored, but nothing
> negative so far).
>
> Don't take the above to mean that I'll stop the day somebody complains:
> I'm thick-skinned (Lasu, who is reading this over my shoulder commented
> that "thick-HEADED is closer to the truth") enough to take some abuse.
> If I weren't, I'd have stopped developing linux the day ast ridiculed me
> on c.o.minix. What I mean is just that while linux has been my baby so
> far, I don't want to stand in the way if people want to make something
> better of it (*).
>
> Linus
>
> (*) Hey, maybe I could apply for a saint-hood from the Pope. Does
> somebody know what his email-address is? I'm so nice it makes you puke.
-- Taken from Linus's reply to someone worried about the future of Linux