Ubuntu has a new remix in the family: Unity
Ubuntu 22.10 is out, and the biggest change is a new official remix: Ubuntu Unity is now an official flavor.
Unity was once Ubuntu's in-house desktop, but was abandoned for a stock GNOME Shell interface in 2017. As we noted here in The Reg, it was revived by 12-year-old Linux wunderkind Rudra Saraswat, and since then the Ubuntu Unity team applied to become an official edition. After the vote went through, and from version 22.10, it's official once more.
The "Kinetic Kudu" release is based on kernel 5.19, released at the end of July, and the official mainstream flavor uses GNOME – specifically, the latest GNOME 43.
The various underlying subcomponents of 22.10 mostly also apply to the various remixes as well: systemd 251.4, Netplan 0.105, Firefox 104, Thunderbird 102, LibreOffice 7.4, CUPS 2.4, BlueZ 5.65, NetworkManager 1.40, Mesa 22, Pipewire 0.3.57, Poppler 22.08, PulseAudio 16, and xdg-desktop-portal 1.15.
Bear in mind that 22.10 is an interim release. The rule is easy to remember, but apparently quite a few people don't get it. Ubuntu puts out a release twice a year. Stable releases are the earlier ones in even-numbered years.
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Ubuntu 22.10 Is Here!
Ubuntu 22.10 "Kinetic Kudu" is here. It brings many significant improvements, notably Linux Kernel 5.19 and the GNOME 43 experience. Of course, this is a customized GNOME experience that will be familiar to existing Ubuntu users. So, what are all the goodies with Ubuntu 22.10? Let us find out...
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Canonical releases Ubuntu 22.10 Kinetic Kudu
Ubuntu 22.10 will be available to download and install later today from https://ubuntu.com/download.
Codenamed “Kinetic Kudu”, this interim release improves the experience of enterprise developers and IT administrators. It also includes the latest toolchains and applications with a particular focus on the IoT ecosystem.