Just saw on distrowatch that 17.04 is out now. I'm downloading Ubuntu MATE right now. Official flavours The release notes for the official flavours can be found at the following links: Kubuntu https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ZestyZapus/ReleaseNotes/Kubuntu Lubuntu https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ZestyZapus/ReleaseNotes/Lubuntu Ubuntu Budgie https://ubuntubudgie.org/blog/2017/04/11/17-04-release-notes Ubuntu GNOME https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ZestyZapus/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuGNOME Ubuntu Kylin https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ZestyZapus/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuKylin Ubuntu MATE https://ubuntu-mate.org/blog/ubuntu-mate-zesty-final-release/ Ubuntu Studio https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ZestyZapus/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuStudio Xubuntu http://wiki.xubuntu.org/releases/17.04/release-notes Codenamed "Zesty Zapus", Ubuntu 17.04 continues Ubuntu's proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at work through this cycle, introducing new features and fixing bugs. Under the hood, there have been updates to many core packages, including a new 4.10-based kernel, and much more. Ubuntu Desktop has seen incremental improvements, with newer versions of GTK and Qt, updates to major packages like Firefox and LibreOffice, and stability improvements to Unity. Ubuntu Server 17.04 includes the Ocata release of OpenStack, alongside deployment and management tools that save devops teams time when deploying distributed applications - whether on private clouds, public clouds, x86, ARM, or POWER servers, z System mainframes, or on developer laptops. Several key server technologies, from MAAS to juju, have been updated to new upstream versions with a variety of new features. The newest Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Studio, and Xubuntu are also being released today. More details can be found for these at their individual release notes: We're also pleased with this release to welcome Ubuntu Budgie to the family of Ubuntu community flavours. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ZestyZapus/ReleaseNotes#Official_flavours Maintenance updates will be provided for 9 months for all flavours releasing with 17.04. To get Ubuntu 17.04 ------------------- In order to download Ubuntu 17.04, visit: http://www.ubuntu.com/download Users of Ubuntu 16.10 will be offered an automatic upgrade to 17.04. For further information about upgrading, see: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/upgrade As always, upgrades to the latest version of Ubuntu are entirely free of charge. We recommend that all users read the release notes, which document caveats, workarounds for known issues, as well as more in-depth notes on the release itself. They are available at: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/ZestyZapus/ReleaseNotes Find out what's new in this release with a graphical overview: http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/features If you have a question, or if you think you may have found a bug but aren't sure, you can try asking in any of the following places: #ubuntu on irc.freenode.net http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users http://www.ubuntuforums.org http://askubuntu.com Help Shape Ubuntu ----------------- If you would like to help shape Ubuntu, take a look at the list of ways you can participate at: http://community.ubuntu.com/contribute About Ubuntu ------------ Ubuntu is a full-featured Linux distribution for desktops, laptops, netbooks and servers, with a fast and easy installation and regular releases. A tightly-integrated selection of excellent applications is included, and an incredible variety of add-on software is just a few clicks away. Professional services including support are available from Canonical and hundreds of other companies around the world. For more information about support, visit: http://www.ubuntu.com/support More Information ---------------- You can learn more about Ubuntu and about this release on our website listed below: http://www.ubuntu.com To sign up for future Ubuntu announcements, please subscribe to Ubuntu's very low volume announcement list at: http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-announce On behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team, Adam Conrad
Kubuntu is looking the pick of the bunch. I'm more and more attracted to KDE's Plasma 5, maybe I'll eventually betray my love affair with Xfce.
Next year, GNOME again will be the default Ubuntu desktop. Expect Mrk to review that and the other Ubuntu family flavors soon.
I'm staying on LTS until 2018 when the next release is expected to be shipped. My favorite Ubuntu spins are Lighting, which has a customized GNOME Shell environment that looks like GNOME 2 and Budgie, a fork of GNOME that just works.
Norman, You've peaked my interest. Can you supply a link to this Ubuntu spin...Lighting. I googled but couldn't find anything. Thanks in advance. Later... Bob
If you're interested in Budgie, you may want to read https://budgie-desktop.org/2017/01/25/kicking-off-budgie-11/ in which the lead dev outlines reasons and plans to move to Qt.
argh !!! why oh why do they do these light grey fonts on white background, it's almost impossible to read.
Yes, it is. Since I prefer my text easily readable, I use stylesheets via Stylish a lot. It's possible to use style sheets directly, but Stylish is far more convenient for me. For one, I can preview the changes without closing and restarting the browser. There's also automatic syntax correction and so much more. For Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish For Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylish-custom-themes-for/fjnbnpbmkenffdnngjfgmeleoegfcffe
Look on Sourceforge.... and here: http://emmett31.wixsite.com/lightninglinux Its most interesting GNOME 3 spin since Zorin. To add and remove panel launchers, find an empty space on the panel and hold down the Windows key and the Alt key when dragging launchers to and from the panel with your mouse. Mrk would love it. Now here is GNOME made sane.
QT are KDE applications. GTK3 are GNOME. After testing Lumina, I felt the whole thing is pointless. Why create a KDE mini-me? Keep it where its at and make it better. Ike Doherty likes GNOME but unlike Clement Lefebvre and the Mint Linux team, doesn't want to fork to GNOME but use QT to run GNOME applications. Its a lot of work because I noted, it works well with KDE. Try installing LXQT from GNOME. Session won't even boot. That said, because of the tight coupling of Budgie with the GNOME stack, the work to undo it is considerable. If they get that all done by Budgie 11, it will be a miracle.
Thanks, but I thought Joxx' comment in https://www.wilderssecurity.com/thr...-04-zesty-zapus-released.393350/#post-2670424 was about desktop's display. I'm not sure how Stylish would change the desktop display outside the browser.
Stylish is an extension for browsers. I understood that Joxx was referring to the link I provided which has grey text on a white background. If you want to eliminate grey on white in other applications or on your desktop, you'll need to edit, at least your gtkrc file for gtk2 apps and gtk.css for gtk3 apps. I don't know much about qt apps.
Using another theme was my solution for that problem. A popular theme like Arc for instance, is unusable for me for these reasons.