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What's New in Ubuntu 24.10 'Oracular Oriole'

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 07, 2024

As if I didn’t feel old enough already, Ubuntu 24.10 arrives and the Oracular Oriole reminds me it’s two decades since I first fired up Warty Warthog.

Previously, I’d used Red Hat Linux, right up until Red Hat dropped it to concentrate on their new Red Hat Enterprise Linux. I checked out the fledgling Fedora Core, and a few other distros, but Ubuntu was the one that, for me, worked right out of the box with my hardware and peripherals. And, seemingly, for many others too.

To say that Ubuntu went from strength to strength is something of an understatement. How many people, I wonder, first encountered Linux in the shape of Ubuntu. And how many people are using Ubuntu and its many offspring?

I moved away from Ubuntu when my preferences and Canonical’s direction started to diverge. But I greatly appreciate what Canonical have done for Linux in general, by providing an easy, comfortable way to explore Linux.

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