The new version of Ubuntu 19.10 Eoan Ermine has already been released

Ubuntu 19.10

After several weeks of development, the guys at Canonical released today the stable version of Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine", which is already available to the general public. This new version of the distribution arrives with various news among which the new versions of the different components of the system (desktop, kernel and packages) stand out.

In addition to adding some novelties and experimental supports of which will be tested in this transition version to the next LTS version of Ubuntu.

Main news of Ubuntu 19.10 Eoan Ermine

In this new version of Ubuntu 19.10 of the novelties that stands outn, we can find that the desktop environment Gnome has been updated to version 3.34 with support for grouping application icons in overview mode, an improved wireless connection configurator, a new desktop and job background selection panel to increase the responsiveness of the interface and reduce the load on the CPU.

Instead of the previously proposed theme with dark headings, a light theme is used by default, close to the regular Gnome appearance. As an option, a completely dark theme is proposed, in which a dark background is used inside the windows.

As well added the ability to access removable USB drives connected directly from the panel. For connected drives, the panel now displays the corresponding icons with which you can open the content in the file manager or unmount the drive to safely remove the device.

Also also in this new version was enabled by default, the ability to organize access to multimedia data using a protocol. For example, a user can share a collection of videos to view on a SmartTV.

In a Wayland-based environment, it is possible to run X11 applications with root privileges under the control of Xwayland.

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For the heart of the system, in Ubuntu 19.10 the Linux kernel has been updated to version 5.3. To compress the Linux kernel and the initial boot image initramf, the LZ4 algorithm is used, which will reduce boot time due to faster decompression of data.

Also, Toolkit updated to glibc 2.30, GCC 9.2, OpenJDK 11, rustc 1.37, Python 3.7.5, ruby ​​2.5.5, php 7.3.8, perl 5.28.1, go to 1.12.10. Packages added with MySQL 8.0.

LibreOffice office suite has been updated to 6.3, PulseAudio Sound Server has been updated to version 13.0, QEMU 4.0 updated, libvirt 5.6, dpdk 18.11.2, Open vSwitch 2.12, cloud-init 19.2, plus also Added support for WPA3 wireless security technology is highlighted.

ZFS experimental support

As for the experimental part, Ubuntu 19.10 highlights the addition of experimental support to install the root partition with ZFS. Added support for creating and partitioning with ZFS in the installer.

A new zsys daemon is being developed to manage ZFS, which enables you to run multiple parallel systems with ZFS on one computer, automates snapshot creation, and controls the separation of system data and data that is changed during a user session.

The main idea is that in different snapshots it can contain different states of the system and switch between them. For example, in case of problems after installing updates, it will be possible to revert to the previous stable state by selecting the previous snapshot. Snapshots can also be used to automatically seamlessly back up user data.

Download and get Ubuntu 19.10 Eoan Ermine

Finally, for those who want to download and install this new version of Ubuntu on their computers or to be able to test it in a virtual machine, They must download the system image from the official website of the system.

This can be done from the following link. Also, it is important to mention that images of UbuntuServer, Lubuntu, Free, Free Mate, Free Budgie, Ubuntu Studio, Xubuntu, and UbuntuKylin (China edition).

As well as images for Raspberry Pi 4, Raspberry Pi 2, Pi 3B, Pi 3B +, CM3 and CM3 boards.


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  1.   honor said

    Hello, in ubuntu 19.10 the command sudo aptitude install seahorse-plugins did not work, the terminal tells me that the package is not available, or it is already obsolete (which I think), or that this package is in another source. It gives me two other options but with none I was able to install the encryption and decryption in the nautilus.
    What can be done in this case??

    regards