Episode 3:02: The Utopic Tale of Ubuntu
Coming up in this episode The origins of the shirts Ubuntu's history And some thoughts on 22.04 Video version https://youtu.be/PCM-h_0Rqbc Support us on Patreon! Audio Timestamps 0:00 Cold Open 1:30 The Origin of the Shirts 6:43 Lubuntu's in the Backporting Biz 9:45 Ubuntu's History 11:30 2004 17:01 2005 20:11 2006 24:01 2007 29:55 2008 36:39 2009 40:16 2010 47:52 2011 55:05 2012 1:02:35 2013 1:10:03 2014 1:15:00 2015 1:20:19 2016 1:25:26 2017 1:28:49 2018 1:31:17 2019 1:33:49 2020 1:35:55 2021 1:37:19 2022 1:39:43 A Couple Thoughts on Ubuntu 1:48:13 A New Distro, and a Thanks! 1:50:26 Stinger Banter Dan's Shirt Leo's Shirt Lubuntu Backports are coming! Announcements Give us a sub on YouTube You can watch us live on Twitch the day after an episode drops.(not this episode but normally.) Want to have a topic covered or have some feedback? - send us an email, [email protected] Ubuntu The Saga Some fast links: Main Web Page Ubuntu Forums AskUbuntu Ubuntu Discourse Launchpad Official Flavours Wiki There are way too many links to get them all! We gathered a great deal from the official Ubuntu Blog The Inception Bug #1 October 20, 2004 Warty Warthog 4.10 was the first release. Shipit came about the same time Hoary Hedgehog, 5.04, is released adding KDE and the Kubuntu flavor. Ubuntu Foundation is Created Warty's 18 months are up Dapper Drake, 6.06, is released. To date the only release that was late. Also, Xubuntu joined the family with the Xfce desktop. Scott James Remnant dubbed it the Late To Ship release Edgy Eft, 6.10 is released, now with more Upstart Launch Pad 1.0 Beta released Dell offers Ubuntu 7.04 on select devices in the US first release of Ubuntu Studio Gutsy Gibbon, 7.10 Desktop, is released. Mythubuntu and Gobuntu appear here. Launchpad is released System76 joined the fray Landscape, system management and monitoring tools for Ubuntu, launches Hardy Heron, 8.04 LTS, released for Desktop. Wubi is also released. Gobuntu has been made redundant Launchpad 2.0 released Canonical open sources Launchpad Karmic Koala, 9.10, is relased and so is Ubuntu One Lucid Lynx, 10.04, released and the first hints of Lubuntu, though not official yet. Unity announced Ubuntu and Canonical sites get a facelift. See it here Canonical announces Ubuntu Advantage Unity shows lots of improvement, but it's NOT A DOCK! (See it in action) Quitter talk - Blog post Shipit comes to an end Oneiric Ocelot, 11.10, is released. and Lubuntu becomes official. The HUD is introduced. Precise Pangolin, 12.04, is released. Includes the Heads Up Display Favorable reviews of Ubuntu as a whole, but also Unity The traditional installer/live CD is dead. Ubuntu comes to the phone Raring Ringtail, 13.04, is released. focus on mobile ahead of the 14.04 release Wubi has unresolved bugs Ubuntu Kylin was born Ubuntu Edge Announced. Edge fails to meet its goal Ubuntu Kylin hits 1.3m downloads Ubuntu One's file services are being shut down Ubuntu Mate Remix is announced Mark Shuttleworth announces "Snappy Ubuntu" The BQ Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu edition is available "Snappy Ubuntu Core" on Raspberry Pi 2 Vivid Vervet 15.04, is released. Ubuntu MATE, nearly called Mubuntu, gets its first "official flavor" release Snapcraft is announced and Snappy Apps are being called Snaps now ZFS is coming to Ubuntu Acknowledgement that Snaps don't quite look right a lot of times. Mark Shuttleworth announces that Ubuntu's Unity experiement has failed and Gnome, not Unity8 will be the default session in Ubuntu 18.04. This also marks the end of Ubuntu Phone. The next day, however, Marius Gripsgard of UBPorts stepped up to take the reins. Zesty Zappus, 17.04, is released. and with it Ubuntu Budgie becomes an official flavor. Ubuntu 16.04 shows up in the Windows Store, for the Windows Subsystem for Linux. Canonical joins the Gnome Foundation Advisory Board ahead of the 18.04 release. Bionic Beaver, 18.04, is released. and Gnome is the default DE again. Bryan Quigley, looks to drop 32-bit hardware support Cosmic Cuttlefish, 18.10, is released. 32-bit support is now in consideration to be removed, so upgrades from 18.04 are forbidden on 32-bit installs. Lubuntu Switches to LXQt from LXDE Mir 1.0 is released Disco Dingo, 19.04, is released. No more 32bit isos, long live 32bit. Ubuntu for WSL2 i386 architecture, or rather 32-bit support, will be dropped i386 architecture will not be dropped Eoan Ermine 19.10, is released. Experimental ZFS support on installation is available Chromium is snap-only Rocco Interviews Mark Shuttleworth on Linux Spotlight Ubuntu in Pop Culture Focal Fossa, 20.04, is released. Hardware enablement is on by default on the desktop. The Snap Store tags in for Ubuntu Software Groovy Gorilla 20.10, is released. Active Directory support gets added to the installer Snaps get faster Another lurch forward for snap theming. The Ubuntu installer is being rewritten in Flutter. Impish Indri, 21.10, is released. Firefox follows Chromium and switches from a deb to a snap - Only for main Ubuntu, not the flavors... yet. Ubuntu gets their shiny new logo Jammy Jellyfish, 22.04, is released. Better Active Directory integration Flavors follow main Ubuntu and switch to the snap of Firefox. A big push to improve Firefox snap performance The push to improve Firefox continues Housekeeping Catch these and other great topics as they unfold on our Subreddit or our News channel on Discord. Linux User Space subreddit Linux User Space Discord Server Linux User Space Telegram Linux User Space Matrix Next Time Our next show will be a topic show. 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