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Ubuntu 26.10 Beta, Rust Obsession Breaking Ubuntu, Canonical Seemingly Buying Endorsements
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OMG Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu 26.10 Beta released with Linux 7.3 & GNOME 51
The beta release of Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stringray) is now available for download – a week later than planned. Ubuntu 26.10 Beta runs on the Linux 7.3 kernel (release candidate) and ships the GNOME 51 desktop. Lower-level changes include a complete set of Rust core utilities and better handling of low-memory situations. Beta builds are not final or stable, but generally more reliable than earlier snapshots.
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Dolphin Publications B V ☛ Canonical offers users an Ubuntu upgrade to 26.04.1 LTS [Ed: Rust Causes Upgrade Issues in Ubuntu]
According to The Register, Canonical was waiting for backports to resolve regressions in a recent version ofrust-coreutils. That package is part of a broader effort within Ubuntu to reimplement traditional system components in Rust.
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Distro Watch ☛ Development Release: Ubuntu 26.10 Beta
Utkarsh Gupta has announced a beta snapshot of Ubuntu 26.10, which carries the code name "Stonking Stingray".
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Canonical ☛ Canonical named a Challenger in the 2026 GartnerⓇ Magic Quadrant™ for Server Virtualization Platforms [Ed: Canonical turns to scammers and liars in pursuit of fake (paid for) 'recommendations']
Canonical has been recognized as a Challenger in the 2026 GartnerⓇ Magic Quadrant™ for Server Virtualization Platforms. The inaugural edition of the report provides an independent evaluation of server virtualization solutions.
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OMG Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu 26.10 ships with Rust-based OpenPGP tooling [Ed: Canonical lets a British spy replace GNU with Rust]
Ubuntu 26.10 adds a Rust-based OpenPGP implementation, Sequoia PGP, to default installs. GnuPG is still included, but Canonical plans to 'phase' it out.
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Ubuntu ☛ Android™ belongs in your CI/CD pipeline
In the first article, we looked at automation: how Android environments can be created and managed programmatically. In the second, we looked at scaling: how shared infrastructure can make those environments available to more developers, tests, and workloads.
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Tyler Sticka ☛ Repurposing a 15-Year-Old MacBook Air – Tyler Sticka
I’m running the XFCE flavor of Linux Mint 22.3. I could run the Cinnamon version fine, but XFCE is lighter and noticeably snappier on aging hardware.
Speaking of hardware, everything worked out of the box, with one exception: At first, the OS wouldn’t recover from the lid being closed. Eventually, I found a forum post with a very simple fix: [...]
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Ubuntu 26.10 Beta is Available After A One-week Delay
Ubuntu 26.10 is a short term release expected to finally released on October 15, 2026. It features 6-month support until July 2027, GNOME Desktop 51 and Linux Kernel 7.3.
Thanks to the latest Kernel, it includes drivers and improvements for new hardware support, better performance, and various security and other fixes.
The Ubuntu Desktop features smoother desktop animation, out-of-the-box “New Document” context menu, automatic screen rotation for display with an accelerometer. However legacy NVIDIA driver may no longer work as GNOME 51 removed the code for it. See GNOME 51 Release note for details.
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Ubuntu 26.10 Will Have a Rust-based GnuPG Replacement
You already know that Canonical has been selectively replacing Ubuntu's C-based system components with Rust-written equivalents that don't compromise in terms of functionality, most of the time.
Now it looks like the distro's OpenPGP implementation is next, with Sequoia PGP coming preinstalled in Ubuntu 26.10. Canonical wants it to eventually replace GnuPG as the default toolchain, though that switch has not happened yet.
Ubuntu 'Stonking Stingray' beta swims out: Deeper Rust 'oxidization' plus LLM speech-to-text
Ubuntu 26.10, “Stonking Stingray,” has entered beta testing, slightly later than planned – it is in fact scheduled to be released on October 15. While many people will stay with the LTS version, there’s some interesting stuff in there.
There are already some release notes, but like the OS itself, they aren’t final yet, and there are still some gaps. Canonical does note that the "oxidization" process – exchanging core Unix tools written in C with new Rust replacements – goes further in this edition: now, the stock OpenPGP encryption support is via the Rust-based Sequoia-PGP.