Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa is here and these are its news

After 6 months of development and a transition version (Ubuntu 19.10) at last the release of the new LTS version of Ubuntu was announced, being this "Ubuntu 20.04 LTS" with code name Focal Fossa and that this comes with some important changes that mark the course that is had in mind for the distribution.

Of the novelties that stand out of this new Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa release, we can mention the work that was done to improve memory consumption as well as the environmental improvements desktop to have a better performance, in addition to the work that was done from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS to reduce processing burden and delays animations, window manipulation, etc.

What's new in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa?

Starting with the most important changes that are included in this new LTS version of Ubuntu, are the update to Linux kernel 5.4, version in which the "lockdown" module is included, which incorporated the patches supplied in the distributions, used to restrict the access of the root user to the kernel and block the UEFI Secure Boot bypass.

As well as the hardware support improvements with which support is added for Navi 12/14 GPUs, as well as Arcturus and Renoir APUs, including power management tools for Navi12, Renoir, and Arcturus.

Another important change that is presented in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa is the inclusion of the new version of the Gnome 3.36 desktop environment in which a ooptimizing GNOME Shell performance and the window manager, in addition to the fact that the processor load was reduced and also the delays were reduced during the animation processing when manipulating windows, moving the mouse and opening the overview mode.

I have also implemented a new interface to change themes and Speaking of which, the default theme for Yaru has been redesigned, in addition to the dark and light modes. A new design is proposed for the system menu and the application menu is also highlighted that new directory icons have been added that are optimized for display on light and dark backgrounds.

On the other hand, another of the changes that stand out from Gnome 3.36 is the change to the lock screen and a new "Do not disturb" mode which disables all notifications on the desktop.

Also, within the system settings, in "Displays" where we can change the screen resolution of the system, a new function called "Fractional Scaling" was enabled with which we can establish a scale between "25, 150, 175 and 200".

Finally as for the system packaging, we can find that they are included the new versions of the already known applications: as a browser, the Firefox 75 web, in the office automation part, LibreOffice 6.4.2.2, Thunderbird, rhythmbox, etc.

Although an important change in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa is that the Snap Store has moved to replace Ubuntu Software Centor as the default tool for finding and installing packages and instead of finding it as "Ubuntu Software Center" it now just switches to "Ubuntu software".

Finally, tIt is also noted that the version was continued experimental by ZFS To install on the root partition, this ZFSonLinux implementation was updated to version 0.8.3 with support for encryption, hot removal of devices, the "zpool trim" command, acceleration of the "scrub" and "resilver" commands.

Download Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa

The image of Ubuntu 20.04 will be available for download soon, but because many will try to download the new version, you may download it from the FTP server be slow, so when the time comes I recommend you choose to download by another method other than direct download, such as using torrent. Right now it can be updated from the operating system with the command "update-manager -c -d".

To record the image on a USB device you can use Etcher, which is a multiplatform tool.


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  1.   leandro said

    What is the md5 and sha1 of focal fossa?

    Where is that information?