This afternoon there was an important news in the Linux world: GNOME 3.34 has been officially released. This is the graphical environment that Ubuntu 19.10 Eoan Ermine will use, the version of Canonical's operating system that we will be able to use as of October 17. The first of the two news items included in this article is that Eoan Ermine is already using GNOME 3.34, something that we can check using the neofetch tool. Of course, it is the latest beta of the graphical environment.
Another thing we can do to verify that we are indeed on GNOME 3.34 is to resize the system preferences window. Yes, as in the video presentation From GNOME 3.34, when shrinking it, a single column appears instead of the usual two, we are in GNOME 3.34. We can also try to move the icons in the application selector: putting one app on top of another will create a folder with both, something only possible from the version of GNOME released just a few hours ago or its betas.
Linux 5.3 on Ubuntu 19.10? It looks like it is
What has surprised me a little more is that Eoan Emine's Daily Build you have updated your kernel to Linux 5.3.0-10.11. Most of the specialized media we would have bet that Ubuntu 19.10 would arrive with Linux 5.2, but it seems that the month of difference with respect to the official launch of the next version of Ubuntu will be more than enough to include the most updated version. In fact, Linux 5.3 still on the eighth Release Candidate; the first stable version will arrive on September 15th.
Except for a major surprise, the jump that we will make in the Ubuntu kernel will be made from Disco Dingo v5.0 to Eoan Ermine's v5.3. Among the novelties included in the new version we have the initial support for Intel Speed Select technology on Cascadelake processors o improved compatibility with the latest Apple MacBooks. From the looks of it, with the kernel and a GNOME much more fluid Than the previous version, Ubuntu 19.10 will be a bigger release than originally expected.