After the release of the new version of Ubuntu 19.10 and its official flavors, it is logical that they began To make their respective updates all those distributions that are based on Ubuntu. Such is the case with Pop! _YOU, which was recently released and announced by System76.
System76, is a company specialized in the production of laptops, PCs and Linux servers. And they recently announced the release of the new version of Pop! _OS 19.10. Pop! _OS is a distribution based on Ubuntu and presents a redesigned desktop environment based on a GNOME Shell. The developments of the project are distributed under the GPLv3 license.
Main novelties of Pop! _OS 19.10
With the release of this new version of Pop! _OS 19.10, a new dark design mode is proposed in the system interface, whereupon the default theme has been redesigned based on the Adwaita theme.
The interesting of this is that the proposal of the dark and light themes they use contrasting colors from a neutral palette that does not tire the eyes, In addition, the developers worked to verify the correctness of the display of all the widgets.
For its part, Gnome components have been updated to version 3.34 with support for grouping app icons in overview mode, an improved wireless connection configurator, a new desktop background selection panel and they work to increase the responsiveness of the interface and reduce CPU load.
Also in this new version of the distribution you can find new sound effects played when connecting an external media or charging cable.
Tensorman a new tool to manage Tensorflow
Tensorman utility added which is a tool developed by System76 to manage Tensorflow tools in an isolated Docker-based environment. Tensorman allows you to run scripts in a container with Tensorflow, as well as being able to choose a version for individual projects and operations.
This will allow all versions of Pop! _OS get the same support for all versions of Tensorflow, including preview versions, without the need to install Tensorflow or the CUDA SDK on the system. Similarly, new versions of Tensorflow upstream will be immediately available to install with Tensorman.
Offline updates
An important novelty of pop! _OS 19.10 is that added ability to update distribution in offline mode, in which all components are first downloaded to the system to update to a new major version, after which the user can start their installation when deemed necessary.
In the configurator, in the detailed configuration section, as well as in the notification about the formation of a new version, a button appeared to download updates without installing them.
To actually start the update, the user simply has to click this button a second time after downloading the updates and the button changes its appearance.
Download Pop! _OS 19.10
In order to obtain this new system image and install this Linux distribution on your computer or you want to test it under a virtual machine. You just have to go to the official website of the distribution and in its download section you can get the image of the system.
Finally, you can make use of Etcher, which is a multiplatform tool to save the system image to a USB.
For those interested in upgrading, System76 announces that it is possible to upgrade Pop! _OS 19.04 to version 19.10 from the command line, to do this just open a terminal and execute the following commands in it.
sudo apt update sudo apt install pop-desktop sudo apt full-upgrade do-release-upgrade
At the end of the update they will have to restart their computer.