The African animal does not only live on official flavors, although since yesterday it will do so a little more. Of the remixes that are now orbiting the Ubuntu planet, and if memory serves me correctly, the first to appear was the cinnamon flavor, but the first to be official after the Budgie flavor was Ubuntu Unity. The rest still have to continue working, and Josuah Peisach, leader of the project that today launched Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix 22.10.
La News list which has provided us Peisach is much more detailed than what Kubuntu, Ubuntu MATE and co. offer. Although the truth is that many of them are related to the graphic environment. Desktop aside, all versions of Ubuntu share some changes, such as the kernel, and the Kinetic Kudu family uses Linux 5.19.
Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix 22.10 Kinetic Kudu Highlights
- Supported for 9 months, until July 2023.
- Cinnamon 5.4.12, where most of the changes are.
- Linux 5.19.
- Muffins 5.4.7.
- Partial support for Wayand.
- Nemo 5.4.3.
- Firefox 104, in theory, although it should be updated to the latest version soon, Firefox 106.
- Thunderbird 104.
- Libre Office 7.4.
- Blue Z 5.65.
- CUPS 2.4.
- Network Manager 1.40.
- Pipewire 0.3.57.
- Popper 22.08.
- PressAudio 16.
- xdg-desktop-portal 1.15.
Peisach also announces that project packages are now part of the main files so you no longer need to use their repositories (Ubuntu Cinnamon's) to install their software. Although they don't say it like that, this seems like an important step towards the goal of becoming part of the Canonical/Ubuntu family. On the other hand, when updating the operating system it will no longer be necessary to add the repository again.
Although it seems that it is taking steps forward, Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix 22.10 is still not an official flavor, so the images still do not appear on the Canonical server and must be downloaded from Google Drive, Torrent or Sourceforge. Links are available here. To find out if it becomes an official flavor in 2023, we will have to wait at least six more months.