Focal Testing of Kubuntu 20.04 LTS

[NoWorries]

I also downloaded the beta of Focal and installed it as a persistent live USB.

Good to hear from you GG and to know that you are giving Focal a go at this early stage.

I am wondering if you are experiencing the problem that I have with adding repositories using either Muon or the command line. I am not sure if my problem is self inflicted by the way I installed Focal.

A second opinion would be greatly appreciated.

[claydoh]

Moved to a different subforum, as Testimonials is not a good fit for this.

[GreyGeek]

I also downloaded the beta of Focal and installed it as a persistent live USB.

The DE is very snappy even with out my NVIDA driver loaded. I'll do a glxgears test later.

My first nit is that the option to disable the touch pad IF a mouse is plugged in has been removed.

[Don B. Cilly]

Apologies, it was just a silly quip.

Still, of course it is not a 4 letter swearing word, it's a five-letter one, which combined with the other five-letter one makes it... fit the brief ;·)
Honestly, focal fossa, from a romance-language point of view, sounds suspiciously like "septic tank"...

And the scriptwriters of "Meet the Fockers" would probably love it ;·)

[NoWorries]

I used Focal in the title because it is an adjective relating to, being, or having a focus. So I felt the first word of the name for Kubuntu 20.04 was useful and I followed it by Testing, ie focus on testing this new distribution!!!

Hence it is not a 4 letter swearing word

[Don B. Cilly]

Focal Fossa?
Let me guess. The brief was: we can't use four-letter words beginning with F, but five-letters are OK as long as you make it equally - or preferably more - annoying?
And I thought Eoan Ermine was bad...

[NoWorries]

While the download from the location:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/daily-live/current/

was only available for a few days, I could not resist the temptation to give it a go and track its development. I was away interstate for 5 days when I first noticed the name Focal Fossa and the download being available.

After returning home from the University Reunion and visit to family and friends, I copied all the files from my 19.10 system onto another networked Laptop before doing the install.

The install went well with the 2.1 GB focal-desktop-amd64.iso, however the Laptop I had, had Windows 7 installed which had been removed. I overlooked deleting the 100 MB Dos partition. The end result was that Focal booted to the Grub prompt. The quickest solution was to do the install again and delete the Dos partition.

Because it is soon after the release of Eoan, one can expect some teething problems. One problem that I have not been able to resolve is that: Muon > Settings > Configure Software Sources, only does an update of the software sources. It does not give options to change preferences or add other repositories.

If I use the command line to add a repository, I get the following:

NoWorries@sybil:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:canonical-kernel-team/unstable
[sudo] password for NoWorries: 
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/add-apt-repository", line 107, in <module>
sp = SoftwareProperties(options=options)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py", line 118, in __init__
self.reload_sourceslist()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py", line 613, in reload_sourceslist
self.distro.get_sources(self.sourceslist)    
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/aptsources/distro.py", line 93, in get_sources
(self.id, self.codename))
aptsources.distro.NoDistroTemplateException: Error: could not find a distribution template for Ubuntu/focal
NoWorries@sybil:~$

At this stage the Info Centre is similar to what I have for Eoan with the exception of the Kernel Version. So I eagerly look forward to the progress by the developers over the coming months.