Canonical Releases Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
- Paul Thurrott
- Apr 21, 2022
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Canonical today announced the release of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS which, as a long-term support release, will be supported for 10 years.
“Our mission is to be a secure, reliable, and consistent open-source platform—everywhere,” Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth says. “Ubuntu 22.04 LTS unlocks innovation for industries with demanding infrastructure security requirements, such as telecommunications and industrial automation, underpinning their digital transformation.”
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Canonical says that Ubuntu 22.04 LTS brings “significant leaps forward” in cloud confidential computing, real-time kernel for industrial applications, and enterprise Active Directory, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, FIPS, and FedRAMP compliance. And it’s the only Linux distribution to support Microsoft Azure Confidential Computing virtual machines (VMs), which guarantees confidentiality between different cloud customers and between customers and Azure operators via hardware-level encrypted guest isolation, measured boot, and TPM-backed full-disk encryption.
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is also the first LTS release to support the Ubuntu Desktop on the Raspberry Pi 4.
“With Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, the entire recent Raspberry Pi device portfolio is supported for the very first time, from the new Raspberry Pi Zero 2W to the Raspberry Pi 4,” Raspberry Pi Trading CEO Eben Upton says. “It’s great to see a certified Ubuntu Desktop release that includes support for the 2 GB Raspberry Pi 4, giving developers all over the world access to the most affordable development desktop environment.”
There’s a lot more going on in this release, and you can learn more in the original blog post. You can download Ubuntu 22.04 LTS from the Ubuntu Downloads website.
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dftf
<p>I’ve only just installed it inside a VM but a few notes:</p><p><br></p><p>Why can’t the <strong><em>open-vm-tools</em></strong><em> </em>and <strong><em>open-vm-tools-desktop</em></strong><em> </em>packages come in the distro to make life easier?</p><p><br></p><p>When you go into the <strong>Ubuntu launcher</strong>, why are all the app names so badly truncated? Every LibreOffice one is literally just "LibreOff…", so you can only tell them apart via the icons. Also, why when you go to "Add to favourites", which then puts the apps icon onto the "taskbar" does it remove it from the Launcher? Why can it only be in one place at a time? It’s also irritating there is no "sort alphabetically" option, and even when you have room on the first screen for more icons, they still sit on the second screen until you drag them over. I also don’t get why when you go into a folder, the icons are massive in size compared to the ones outside.</p><p><br></p><p>Why is the <strong>firewall </strong>so irritating to configure? On Windows, you can browse to an individual app manually, or wait to be asked if you want to allow it. On Ubuntu, you cannot specify one manually, only choose from a predefined list. And even after I allowed ports 80 and 443, still no browser would work.</p><p><br></p><p>During setup, why is doing <strong>dual-boot</strong> so confusing? On Windows you just install the older OS (e.g. Windows 10) first, use DISKPART to delete the Recovery Partition (if you do desire) then install the newer OS (e.g. Windows 11). On Linux I’ve no-idea how to do this properly so usually don’t bother!</p><p><br></p><p>I also did a quick search in the <strong>Ubuntu Store</strong> for all the common web-browsers. <em>Opera </em>was the only one it found. For <em>Google Chrome </em>I assumed it would direct me to <em>Chromium </em>but no. And neither <em>Microsoft Edge </em>nor <em>Vivaldi </em>are in there. I downloaded the DEB for both manually and when I double-clicked they opened in Archive Manager, rather-than the Store app, which is an odd new default sure to confuse users!</p><p><br></p><p>Also, can anyone explain <strong>the difference between "flatpak" and "snap" </strong>type installs? I still have no-idea, and have Googled it before-now!</p>
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dftf
<p>Really? Have you used a Windows setup process since <em>Vista</em>? You literally just tell it how big you want the partition to be where the system will go (which will contain Windows itself, your User folder, and the pagefile, the equivalent to swap) and <em>that’s it!</em></p><p><br></p><p>In Ubuntu you have to create the boot partition, which I think has to be a specific format, then a system one (again, which can only be specific formats) and possibly one for your "home" folder and another for the swap (though some distros now use a "swapfile" instead of separate partition).</p><p><br></p><p>It’s so confusing to know what you have to create, what size and which file-system!</p><p><br></p><p>On Windows, the only one you set a size for is the main partition, the boot and recovery ones get done for you. And since Vista, NTFS will be the file-system as XP was the last one that could be installed on a FAT32 partition. (Windows Server and Pro for Workstations do support booting from the new ReFS system, but they’re the exception.)</p><p><br></p><p>Linux even asks if I want to use "LVM" to which I’ve no idea if I do or not.</p><p><br></p><p>Seriously, you’ll never get Linux on the desktop become a mainstream thing (excluding ChromeOS that hide the complex underpinnings) until there are distros that just make things simple.</p>
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dftf
<p>So similar to "portable" apps on <em>Windows </em>then where you download a ZIP file, extract it and it all runs from the one folder?</p><p><br></p><p>I guess it helps get-around the issue of having to install 10s of extra "dependencies" compared to a "traditional" (apt-get install) type setup, though at the cost of extra disk-space by duplicating some of the same dependency files.</p><p><br></p><p>I’d still like to know the difference between "flatpak" and "snap" though… I think Linux Mint has chosen to use flatpaks but not snap?</p>
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dftf
<p>If you read my comment properly, you’ll note for Edge and Vivaldi I did download the DEB installers for them manually. Thanks anyway though, I guess!</p>
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dftf
<p>Also, when will they finally fix the irritating <strong>keyboard-layout </strong>issue during the Setup process?</p><p><br></p><p>When you change the layout from English (US) to your local one (in my case, English (UK)), that change only takes-effect post-install, not immediately. So when you create the password for your account, some symbols entered will be different from what you think you’ve entered — for example, if you did SHIFT + 2, you’d expect the " character to be entered in the password field, but it actually enters @ as the Setup process still goes by the US keyboard layout.</p><p><br></p><p>That means post-install users may not be able to log into their account, if they use a symbol in their password that is not in the same-place in the US layout. You’d think by now this would be fixed, but apparently not!</p>