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Ubuntu Core Desktop Delayed, Won't Be Released in April (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Ubuntu Core Desktop will not be released alongside Ubuntu 24.04 LTS in April, as originally hoped.

Canonical doesn’t go into details about what specific issues need resolving. One imagines, given that the first Ubuntu Core Desktop release was going to be a preview and not a recommended download, it’s a myriad bugs/difficulties — ones not easily sorted.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 10 months ago (4 children)

"Canonical announced it was building an all-snap, immutable version of Ubuntu for home users called Ubuntu Core Desktop."

I don't like the sound of this.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I can only imagine what a call to 'mount' is going to look like.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

There might be a delay

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sounds exactly like the Snap version of Fedora Silverblue. Which is actually pretty great.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If only snap packages weren't utter garbage and the authors actually tested them before pushing them out.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

“Test it in production.”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Ah yes, the Microsoft way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it sounds like the desktop version of an Iphone.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't believe iOS and Android use immutable filesystems to the extent some Linux distros do, like openSuse Aeon, Fedora Silverblue, Nixos, etc. iOS and Android just make it more difficult to gain root access.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

They do. By default the system partition is straight up mounted read-only.