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Ubuntu 25.04 Beta Officially Released

([Ubuntu] 5 Hours Ago Ubuntu 25.04)


The Ubuntu 25.04 "Plucky Puffin" beta is now available for testing ahead of the official release set for 17 April.

[1]Ubuntu 25.04 is shaping up to be an excellent 6-month, non-LTS update to Ubuntu Linux with a variety of package updates, continued installer improvements, and various other enhancements throughout. Ubuntu 25.04 is powered by the brand new Linux 6.14 kernel, the GNOME 48 desktop and all of its goodies, the Mesa 25.0 open-source graphics drivers, Python 3.13, and an assortment of other updates and changes made as covered now across numerous Phoronix articles.

The Ubuntu 25.04 beta release today includes Ubuntu Desktop, Server, and Cloud products, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, UbuntuKylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Studio, Ubuntu Unity, and Xubuntu flavors.

Download links and more details on these changes coming with Ubuntu 25.04 via the [2]release announcement .

I have already become with some [3]Ubuntu 25.04 beta benchmarks and more will be out in the coming days on Phoronix.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Ubuntu+25.04

[2] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2025-March/000309.html

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-2504-beta-benchmarks


MorrisS.

Hear me out. Linux is Microsoft's main competition right now. Because of
this we are forcing them to "innovate", something they would usually avoid.
Now if MS Bob has taught us anything, Microsoft is not a company that
should be innovating. When they do, they don't come up with things like
"better security" or "stability", they come back with "talking
paperclips", and "throw in every usless feature we can think of, memory
footprint be dammed".

Unfortunatly, they also come up with the bright idea of executing email.
Now MIME attachments aren't enough, they want you to be able to run/open
attachments right when you get them. This sounds like a good idea to
people who believe renaming directories to folders made computing possible
for the common man, but security wise it's like vigorously shaking a
package from the Unibomber.

So my friends, we are to blame. We pushed them into frantically trying to
invent "necessary" features to stay on top, and look where it got us. Many
of us are watching our beloved mail servers go down under the strain and
rebuilding our company's PC because of our pointless competition with MS.
I implore you to please drop Linux before Microsoft innovates again.

-- From a Slashdot.org post in regards to the ILOVEYOU email virus