Originate Overviews of Oracular Oriole Kubuntu 24.10

[NoWorries]

It's only 1 Month before the Release of Oracular Oriole 24.10.


During this past month there have been significant advances in the development of Oracular. This is illustrated by the Version changes in the current Info Centre listing since last month which is shown below.

	2 Months To Go	1 Month To Go
KDE Plasma Version	5.27.11	6.1.4
KDE Frameworks Version	5.116	6.5.0
QT Version	5.15.13	6.6.2
Application Version	4:23.08.5	4:24.08.5
Kernel Version	6.8.0-31-generic	6.8.0-31-generic

The only problem that I have encountered is with using Glmark2 on x11. I have all versions installed but when I try glmark2-es2-x11 or glmark2-x11, I get the command not found message. Only glmark2 works? This is my only complaint which is rather trivial at this stage.

Otherwise the developers are doing a brilliant job at development and are to be congratulated on the progress made during the last month.

[kc1di]

downloaded and installed 24.10 beta and work quite well for me. couple 3rd party programs would either not install or install and not run , but that will most likely get fixed after final is released. So far so good.
Also so far been unable to get appimages to work.

[claydoh]

Also so far been unable to get appimages to work.

That is because appimages require an older fuse library that is even older than what Ubuntu provides., lol. This was the case back in 22.04 as well, iirc.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/04/...2-ubuntu-23-04

[kc1di]

That is because appimages require an older fuse library that is even older than what Ubuntu provides., lol. This was the case back in 22.04 as well, iirc.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/04/...2-ubuntu-23-04

Thanks but the correct fuse libs are already installed in 24.10 So back to the drawing board. Haven't really investigated it that far yet will in the coming days as time permits. But Thanks for the hint.

[claydoh]

libfuse2t64?
It might also be the ongoing apparmor issue (on any ditsro that is using it iirc), these seem to need profiles created for apps.
A brute force hammer:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1511...eation-restric
A bit more of a scalpel maybe?:

sudo aa-disable /path/to/AppImage

or maybe creating a profile similar to this:
https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/issues/10332

Appimages have sucked large ones for some time, for me, even before the libfuse thing

[kc1di]

Thanks claydoh the first one works , second did not , did not try the third. But appimages are now working

[cookiemuncher]

I'm on Kubuntu 24.04. Anyone upgraded to 24.10 without major issues?

EDIT: Update completed. No issues encountered.

EDIT2: Unable to boot into Windows 11 from grub menu. Error message: "error: cannot load image. Press any key to continue...".
Booting into Windows from F11 (CMOS boot menu) works fine.
Grub menu worked perfectly with 24.04

[claydoh]

The official beta is out today, so it is the prefect time to take sytem snapshots/backups and see what happens.

[WonkoTheSaneUK]

Over on Ubuntu Forums, it's being said that the daily ISO now includes Plasma 6

Meanwhile, I'm having a weird issue downloading anything - the browser (I've tried both Chrome & Firefox) waits around 15 seconds before offering a "Save as" box, whether it's a 170-byte text file or a multi-GB ISO image.
Whiskey! Tango! Foxtrot!

Looks like some of the latest updates have fixed my above issue. Download boxes pop up in less than a second now.

[NoWorries]

As I live in Australia, I take the centre of the universe for testing new distributions to be "gb" and this is the first item in my source list for my downloads. I have not had any problems using "gb". I will be interested to know if there is another more reliable development source in the USA, Germany or France.

[claydoh]

I will be interested to know if there is another more reliable development source in the USA, Germany or France.

The sources for Oracular are not separate, all the sources for all the releases (that aren't EOL and mothballed) are on the same pool of mirrors as everything else. BUT the particular directories for oracular do see more upload traffic from the fairly constant changes, plus the prorogation out to all the vast number of mirrors.

One can use the 'find fastest server' thingy in the Software Sources tool to find the quickest specific server amongst all the different servers in each country , though IME, this changes constantly, even daily.
If I find the country specific server pool is slow, I usually switch to the worldwide main one (archive.ubuntu.com) These major country URLS are just load balancers or other services that try to send requests to the best specific server at that moment.

[rec9140]

So I am curious since this release is defaulting to wayturkey (pfft! blech! you are welcome to disagree... )

What is the MEANS to DISABLE wayturkey from being offered by the greeter ie: LightDM (this specific as I enable and use XDMCP for my use) .. I don't want the option even presented...I only want X11 usable, period, ever. I'd be happy if the greeter didn't even know it was there honestly, and or even remove the package, but I am betting that this thing like several other things has entangled its tentacles into things it shouldn't and would crash the whole thing...

So any ideas on the magic config to nuke this off the planet Thanks!

PS: Yes, wayturkey may be YOUR future and that of Linux in general. I've posted this before, this is my HARD RED LINE. And I am quite happy to stop right at that point where X11 is not usable, and just stay there... I am ain't interested in snap (pfft!) or wayturkey (pfft!)

[rec9140]

How the bloody heck did I manage to miss this

https://kubuntu.org/news/introducing...buntu-flavors/
https://github.com/kubuntu-team/KubuQA

You early bird testers might find this useful

Ok... I've read the github the puffer... umm and I still don't get what this does for me?? Creating a VM from an ISO, is pretty much a few clicks.. come back.. test... so ummmmmmm Bueller I am clearly missing something in this... and I am betting that it probably wouldn't help me test the beta betas (I conisder non ESR's to be betas to test for what they will fubar in my life that I hopefully can undo/fix/correct by the time I need to build a new box... ) ? ? ? ?

Tell you what I could use!! Is a PHYSICAL to ISO creator that will take my customized box, create an ISO with an option for a LIVE ISO... We've been getting Live ISO's for decades?? So wheres the toolchain for use mere plebes Yes there have been projects in the past, they all died decades ago, or feels like it... This would be so beneficial to me and I am sure others...

This Again, I've clearly can't see the forest for the trees in this..... so SNAFU.

[claydoh]

Just remember that hard red line as you see everyone's backs at some point in the future, lol! or not. Xorg thankfully won't be gone any time soon, and hopefully the ancient unmaintained things like xdmcp don't crumble quickly. I doubt that they will. But for usable modern display and the like, Wayland is the tech that the Xorg devs moved to.

But removing the login option is super easy.
uninstall the package plasma-workspace-wayland

[acheron]

But removing the login option is super easy.
uninstall the package plasma-workspace-wayland

There is no separate plasma-workspace-wayland package in Plasma 6. Both X11 and Wayland sessions are shipped together in the plasma-workspace package. Commit in Debian packaging. https://salsa.debian.org/qt-kde-team...ddd3#58ef006ab 62b83b4bec5d81fe5b32c3b4c2d1cc2_315_347