A yau, 19 ga Yuli, 2018, Ubuntu 17.10 Artful Aardvark Ya kai ƙarshen rayuwarta kuma ba zata karɓi ƙarin software ko abubuwan tsaro ba.
An sake shi sama da watanni tara da suka gabata, a ranar 19 ga Oktoba, 2017, Ubuntu 17.10 an sanya masa suna Artful Aardvark ta Shugaban Kamfanin Canonical Mark Shuttleworth, kasancewar na farko da aka saukar da tashar GNOME a matsayin yanayin shimfidar tebur ta hanyar tsoho, maimakon Hadin kai.
Baya ga maye gurbin Unity tare da GNOME, Ubuntu 17.10 ya kawo canje-canje da yawa masu mahimmanci kamar sabon ƙarni na Wayland ta tsohuwa maimakon X.Org, shawarar da aka sauya Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver, ban da dakatar da sigar GNOME na Ubuntu.
Amma kamar yadda aka saba tare da sakewa waɗanda ba su da tallafi na dogon lokaci, bayan watanni tara, Canonical ya ba da sanarwar ƙarshen rayuwar wannan sigar, wannan yana nufin cewa ba za a sake samun sabuntawa na hukuma ko wane iri ba.
Babu wanda zai hana ka amfani da Ubuntu 17.10 Artful Aardvark a kwamfutarka, amma daga yanzu, tsarinka zai zama mai saukin kai wa ga kowane hari kuma ba za a sabunta aikace-aikacen da kake so ba, sai dai idan ka yi amfani da mai sakawa na uku kamar Flatpak ko AppImage.
A kan wannan, haɓakawa zuwa Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver bada shawarar, zaka iya yi ba tare da ka goge fayilolin ka ba, amma ana ba da shawarar ka girka shi daga karce, idan ka shirya yin shi muna ba da shawarar ka jira mako guda don ƙaddamar da ƙaramin ƙarami na farko Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS, ranar 26 ga Yuli, hanyar da baza ku girka abubuwan sabuntawa ba bayan tsabtace tsabta.
Kamar yadda ake tsammani, sauran rarar Ubuntu 17.10 mai tushe suma suna kaiwa ƙarshen rayuwarsu, wanda shine dalilin da ya sa aka kuma bada shawarar sabuntawa.
Manufofin sabuntawa na Ubuntu da gaske bana son shi da yawa, sabuntawa na yau da kullun wanda ke tilasta ka sake sanya tsarin daga karba kowane watanni 9 ??? bai dace da ni ba, tuni ya zama kamar Windows (ba ma Windows ba).
Kodayake kyauta ne kuma kyauta, samun matsala don zazzage masarrafar da shigar da ita da sake shigar da shirye-shiryen iri daya yana sanya bata lokaci, ba tare da ambaton cewa ya rabu da kayan aikin ba cikin gajeren lokaci.
Don wannan kuna da, da farko LTS, tare da ci gaba da sabunta tsaro da kuma "Sabis ɗin Sabis" wanda baya tilasta muku sake shigar da komai. To canjin daga LTS zuwa LTS yana da matukar wahala, a wurina bai taba ba ni wata gazawa ba (kuma ba a cikin fassarar ƙananan sifofi kowane watanni 9, amma gaskiya ne cewa a cikin kowace kwamfutar tana iya ba da sakamako daban daban).
Maganar tsohuwar kayan aiki ba abu ne mai Canonical ba, ko Ubuntu, ko wani abu. Sai kawai daga masu haɓaka kernel. Don haka korafin zuwa Reddit ga Mista Torvalds. Amma ƙananan kayan aiki an bar shi daga tukunya tare da kernel na Linux, aƙalla tare da kwamfutoci daga shekaru 15 da suka gabata komai daidai ne.
Batun shirye-shirye wani labari ne, a halin da nake ciki 0 matsaloli ne don saukar dasu daga ma'ajiyar hukuma, amma saboda haka suna bunkasa Snap da guje ma wannan. Cewa kawai tsarin ana sabunta shi, kuma aikace-aikacen da ke ƙunshe da kansu suna tafiya zuwa wata hanyar kuma saboda haka baya haifar da rikice-rikice na tsarin-app
Bari mu gani idan muna da sa'a. Ya zuwa yanzu LibreOffice da Eclipse mai girma. A gefe guda, ɗayan zaɓi shine zazzage shirin, ba daga ajiyar ajiya ba, amma daga shafin yanar gizon sa. Idan kun sauko, misali, Studio ta Android, kuma tsarin ya canza, shirin yana nan har yanzu.