A little over a month after the launch of Ubuntu 18.10 and the start of development of what will be the new version of Ubuntu 19.04 "Disco Dingo" progress has begun in the development of this next release.
Well then Canonical developers have already started to unveil the new features they have in mind for Ubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo.
This is how this next release is beginning to take shape and is that among the novelties that have been released recently It is noted that the GNOME Shell desktop environment in Ubuntu will be faster.
Jobs that focus on recent performance include an optimization pFor the grid of icons in the graphical system environment.
Which was also implemented in the upstream, and a large regression of CPU usage present from Ubuntu 18.04 was also fixed. This latest revision also carried over to the current Ubuntu 18.10.
There is also a latency fix that involves X.Org to improve GNOME Shell performance in scenarios where there are multi-monitor configurations.
And a clutter graphic library timing problem has also been explored.
New Ubuntu installer
After the release of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS earlier this year, Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth commented on the idea of making a new installer for Ubuntu desktop edition and the ability to use HTML5 development alongside electron, while taking advantage of the snap package format.
There wasn't much to report on that during the Ubuntu 18.10 development cycle, but looks like work is still progressing on the new installer and maybe we can see an initial version of it running on Ubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo.
In addition to that, Ubuntu developers are working on a new installer for the distribution.
Main changes already registered
Over the past week in particular, there have been several changes and additions to Ubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo development that should be highlighted in the development brief.
Of which some new features have been released that will be part of the next Ubuntu release, including the following:
The developers have worked on some Linux kernel fixes that were pending on the update manager user interface.
As well several GNOME package updates have been included, which are already available in the archive.
Canonical continues to do a lot to achieve better performance for the GNOME Shell, including upstream work.
Also recent performance changes to the system include:
- An icon optimization that was done on a large scale;
- High CPU usage regression from Ubuntu 18.04 has been fixed in Ubuntu 19.04 Disk Dingoy was carried over to Ubuntu 18.10.
- There is also a lag fix in X.Org, the end of improving multi-monitor performance with GNOME Shell is near. Better GNOME multi-monitor performance is a particular issue.
- Work was done on timing the presentation and also exploring a clutter timing problem.
The beta version of Ubuntu 19.04 should be arriving by March 28, 2019, while the final version is expected to be released on April 18 of next year.
But, until then, more information about the operating system will be released over the months and, as usual, we will keep you updated.
How to try or get Ubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo?
Finally, if you want to test the new changes that have been made to the distribution in the last few weeks, you can download the system ISO.
In addition to this, you can contribute to the detection and reporting of system errors.
The curious are only given the recommendation to test the system under a virtual machine, since it is still system in state (alpha) so you can find a large number of errors.
They left Unity to free up resources and leverage others' work with Gnome. But it turned out so unstable that they had no choice but to optimize everything on their own, hoping that Gnome wouldn't destroy everything in another update. Well at least there is less fragmentation.
Considering that I used Ubuntu 17.04 on my home computer (I have flirted with Ubuntu since version 8) for a whole year, I have not had any complaints about Unity, in fact, I consider it a fat mistake to switch to Gnome Shell (Unity 8 seemed a horror to me). The only thing Unity needed was to modernize the system icons, compatibility with Onedrive (as it already has with Google Drive), which was fluid, did not freeze, easy to configure and use.
By contrast, the latest versions of Ubuntu, I have only endured a couple of days before returning to W10: the desktop freezes; consume resources like never before; you create shortcuts for Chrome apps on the desktop and they don't look like they do in Unity. Nothing, a chestnut. Not to mention that in order for your system to crash and go into hibernation, you have to install the Caffeine program, which was not necessary with Unity. Right now Ubuntu has two updaters: the system updater and on the other hand through the Gnome app store (or whatever it is called), which is also a dread, both to update, and to search for a program.
For me the big mistake of Canonical is that they have paid too much attention to the haters, instead of moving on. Ubuntu has approached like no other (taking the witness of Mandrake) linux to home users who were up to the cap of Windows bugs and bugs. Many geeks "experts" and with nothing better to do criticize Ubuntu, but ordinary users like the one who subscribes, we were very happy with the evolution and performance that Unity had.
What Ubuntu has pending right now is stability on the desktop and that this desktop is also compatible with Onedrive, just as it is now with Google Drive. I never thought that I would miss the "webapps" in the new Ubuntu versions. Unfortunately for me Canonical over Ubuntu is in inertial management, peppered with good regression. I don't know, it seems that since they dismantled that marvel called "UbuntuOne" (which, from the Ubuntu installer, applied the last configuration you had stored in its cloud, with desktop background and everything), everything has been a "pa'tras ».
Hopefully in the following versions they will recover the backward path, since for the home user (like me), it is the best that there has been. When it comes out, I will install it and I hope I like it so much that I will have it working again for months and months.
Greetings.