Ubuntu 25.10 'Questing Quokka' Released (9to5linux.com)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/09/2054218/ubuntu-2510-questing-quokka-released
- Source link: https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-25-10-questing-quokka-is-now-available-for-download-this-is-whats-new
> Dubbed Questing Quokka, Ubuntu 25.10 is [2]powered by the latest and greatest Linux 6.17 kernel series for top-notch hardware support and ships with the latest GNOME 49 desktop environment, defaulting to a Wayland-only session for the Ubuntu Desktop flavor, meaning there's no other session to choose from the login screen. Ubuntu Desktop also ships with two new apps, namely GNOME's Loupe instead of Eye of GNOME as the default image viewer, as well as Ptyxis instead of GNOME Terminal as the default terminal emulator. Also, there's a new update notification that will be shown with options to open Software Updater or install updates directly.'
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> Other highlights of Ubuntu 25.10 include sudo-rs as the default implementation of sudo, Dracut as the default initramfs-tools, Chrony as the default NTP (Network Time Protocol) client, Rust Coreutils as the default implementation of GNU Core Utilities, and TPM-backed FDE (Full Disk Encryption) recovery key management. Moreover, Ubuntu 25.10 adds NVIDIA Dynamic Boost support and enables suspend-resume support in the proprietary NVIDIA graphics driver to prevent corruption and freezes when waking an NVIDIA desktop. For Intel users, Ubuntu 25.10 introduces support for new Intel integrated and discrete GPUs.
Ubuntu 25.10 is available for download [3]here .
[1] https://slashdot.org/~prisoninmate
[2] https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-25-10-questing-quokka-is-now-available-for-download-this-is-whats-new
[3] https://releases.ubuntu.com/
Ubuntu Flustering Fuckfaces (Score:1, Informative)
You donâ(TM)t need a marketing department to not come up with names like this. It kinda reinforces the stereotypes if you think about it
Impressive they're using the latest kernel (Score:2)
I had to have at least 6.12 to have drivers for all my hardware, and Debian is even now still only on 6.11. I'm using 6.14 now because that's the newest that will work without making other changes, and I've been uninterested in figuring it out as this is new enough for my purposes otherwise.
Back in times of yore it was normal to build your own kernel, and today Debian and Linux together make it very easy once you get through the long-winded documentation, as the files you need to make the debs are in the ke
Yuck (Score:2)
> "ships with the latest GNOME 49 desktop environment, defaulting to a Wayland-only session [...] there's no other session to choose from the login screen"
Yuck.
There are so many reasons to use Linux Mint, instead.
But, "congrats", I guess.
Wayland (Score:4, Funny)
> Rust Coreutils as the default implementation of GNU Core Utilities
"And Rustdesk just works. "
[Wakes up from a nightmare dream]
It is finally real? Just works?