{"id":372532,"date":"2020-10-23T09:40:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T07:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=372532"},"modified":"2020-10-23T09:42:06","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T07:42:06","slug":"ubuntu-20-10-groovy-gorilla-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/372532-ubuntu-20-10-groovy-gorilla-released.html","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy Gorilla released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ubuntu has announced the latest release of its Linux-based operating system, codenamed Groovy Gorilla.<\/p>\n<p>Ubuntu 20.10 is the first Ubuntu release to feature desktop images for the Raspberry Pi 4.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Ubuntu kernel has been updated to the 5.8 based Linux kernel, and our default toolchain has moved to gcc 10 with glibc 2.32. Additionally, there is now a desktop variant of the Raspberry Pi image for Raspberry Pi 4 4GB and 8GB,&#8221; the Ubuntu release team <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lists.ubuntu.com\/archives\/ubuntu-announce\/2020-October\/000263.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a><\/strong> in its announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Ubuntu Desktop 20.10 introduces GNOME 3.38, which the Ubuntu team said comes with significant performance improvements and a more responsive user experience.<\/p>\n<p>The installer for the desktop version of Ubuntu also includes the ability to connect to Windows Active Directory domains.<\/p>\n<p>Ubuntu Server 20.10 integrates updates from virtualisation and infrastructure projects like QEMU 5.0, libvirt 6.6, and OpenStack Victoria.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ubuntu Server now ships Telegraf, the metrics collecting agent that together with Prometheus and Grafana form the basis of a strong and reliable logging, monitoring and alerting solution that can be deployed on Ubuntu systems,&#8221; the team stated.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Ubuntu 20.10 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/discourse.ubuntu.com\/t\/groovy-gorilla-release-notes\/15533\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">release notes<\/a><\/strong>, the update to 5.8 Linux kernel adds the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Better WiFi connection quality with Airtime Queue limits<\/li>\n<li>Intel Gen11 (Ice Lake) and Gen12 (Tiger Lake) graphics support<\/li>\n<li>Initial support for AMD Family 19h (Zen 3)<\/li>\n<li>USB 4 (Thunderbolt 3 protocol) support added<\/li>\n<li>Active State Power Management (ASPM) for improved power savings of PCIe-to-PCI devices<\/li>\n<li>General Notification Queue for key\/keyring notification, mount changes, etc.<\/li>\n<li>X86 Enable 5-level paging support by default<\/li>\n<li>Btrfs RAID1 with 3 and 4 copies and more checksum alternatives<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/363360-meet-the-first-south-african-elected-to-lead-debian-linux.html\">Meet the first South African elected to lead Debian Linux<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ubuntu has announced the latest release of its Linux-based operating system, codenamed Groovy Gorilla.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":372542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[969,1799,967,67306],"class_list":["post-372532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-canonical","tag-linux","tag-ubuntu","tag-ubuntu-20-10-groovy-gorilla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":372546,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372532\/revisions\/372546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}