 Today, I'm going to be taking a look at the recently released Ubuntu 22.10 codenamed Kinetic Kudu. Now, that's an interesting name, Kinetic. I know what that word means. Most of you guys, I'm sure, are familiar with the word Kinetic. It means of a relating to motion, motion of physical bodies, motion of energy. But Kudu, most of us have never heard that particular word. I don't know what Kudu is. It kind of sounds like something I've stepped in a couple of times, but I had to look up Kudu. Apparently, it is an African antelope. So, an African antelope in motion is the codename for this particular release. And it's important to point out that this is a six-month interim release of Ubuntu. This is not one of the long-term support releases. And most Ubuntu users, I would say certainly more than 90% of Ubuntu users are probably long-term support release users, LTS users. But those of us that like a little bit more excitement in our lives, we like to experiment with new features. These six-month interim releases are exciting to play with. So I have grabbed the latest ISO for Ubuntu 22.10. This is the flagship edition with the GNOME desktop. And I'm going to run through a quick installation here inside a virtual machine. So I'm going to choose try or install Ubuntu here in the grub menu. And it boots us directly into a live environment, the Ubiquiti installer, the familiar Ubiquiti installer that Ubuntu uses, launches automatically. And here we can install Ubuntu or we could try Ubuntu. If I click try Ubuntu, the installer will close and then we can just play around in the live environment if that's what we wanted to do. But I'm going to run through a quick installation. The first screen is choosing our keyboard layout. English US is chosen by default. I'm going to stick with that. So I'm just going to click continue. Now updates another software. Would we like to do a normal installation or a minimal installation? The normal installation includes a full suite of desktop applications. The minimal installation just includes a web browser and a few basic apps to get you started, but for the most part you go and install the suite of applications that you choose. I'm going to do the normal installation in this case. And now do we want to download updates while installing Ubuntu? That's ticked on by default. I'll leave that ticked on. And then the next thing, install third party software for graphics and Wi-Fi hardware and additional media formats. You do need to take this on. For most Linux desktop users, you're going to need proprietary drivers, especially NVIDIA graphics cards, Wi-Fi chips and laptops, and of course a lot of multimedia codecs or proprietary software. And you're going to need multimedia codecs to have a proper desktop experience when you're, say, watching Blu-rays, DVDs and things like that. So please take this on if you're installing this on physical equipment. Now I'm going to click continue. Next is the installation type. Do we want to erase the disk and give the entire virtual drive of this virtual machine to Ubuntu? Or do we want to do something else? Something else would be I would manually partition the drive myself. I'm going to let Ubuntu have the whole disk, so I'll choose the first option, erase disk and install Ubuntu. We have a button here that says advanced features. If I click that, we have the option of using LVM with the new Ubuntu installation. And we also have erase disk and use ZFS. ZFS is a file system that is very popular in the BSD world. There has been some legal issues over the years with whether ZFS could or could not be included out of the box on our major Linux distributions. But some of that legal stuff, the licensing issues has been cleared up to the point where now Canonical feels confident that they can just ship ZFS out of the box. I'm actually going to choose that just to see how it works. I'm going to erase disk and use ZFS. I'm going to click OK. And I'm going to go ahead and click the button installed now. And then we get this warning message saying it's about to format our drive right to the disk. I'm going to click continue. Now we need to choose our time zone. It is correctly chosen the central time zone in the US for me. So I'm just going to click continue. Now we need to create our username and password. My username is going to be DT, the computer name, which is the computer host name. I'm going to call this Ubuntu-vert. And then we need to create a strong and complicated password for our DT user. And then repeat the strong and complicated password. And now log in automatically. I don't want that ticked on because I want to have to enter my strong and complicated password to get into my machine. For privacy reasons, you should always use a password to get into a computer. So I'm going to have require my password to log in ticked on. We also have a button here for use active directory. I don't know what active directory is. I think it's got something to do with the Windows world or something. I don't know. But I'm going to leave that ticked off. It's ticked off by default. I'm going to click continue. And away we go. Now this portion of the installation typically takes about five to ten minutes on my machine. So I'm going to pause the recording. I'll be back. This Ubuntu has finished installation. The installation has completed. That took about 12 minutes or so for that installation. It took a little longer than I thought it would. But that was because I chose to also download the updates during the installation. And I also ticked on install the proprietary Wi-Fi drivers and video codecs and all of that stuff during the installation process as well. Now to complete the installation, I need to click this button restart now. That's what I'm going to do. And now it prompts me to remove the installation medium. So on a virtual machine, all I need to do is detach the ISO, those of you doing this on physical hardware, this is where you unplug the USB stick that you were installing from. And we're at our login manager. I'm going to go ahead and click on my username DT and let's enter the strong and complicated password for DT. And immediately we're welcomed with this online account screen here where we can connect our online accounts such as our Google accounts, our NextCloud accounts, Microsoft accounts. I'm not going to do any of this in this virtual machine. I'm just going to skip that. Next it says, help improve Ubuntu. It wants to know for telemetry reasons, do you want to send crash reports, system information, stuff like that to Canonical? I have no problems with this since they asked nicely, but if you for whatever reason want to turn that off, you can choose no, but I'll choose yes. And then I'm going to click next. And then privacy, location services, it's turned off by default. You want to allow applications to determine your geolocation. You could turn it on. And I'm going to leave that turned off though. And you're ready to go and you can use the Ubuntu software store to install apps like these. And you can see a lot of proprietary software that's not installed out of the box will be available in the software center such as VS Code, Zoom, Spotify, Slack, Discord is here as well. I'm going to click done. And I really love the kinetic kudu wallpaper. One interesting thing is this icon for the home. Now I am at a VM, but that is weird that that was in that strange place in the center of the desktop. I'm going to move that to a more appropriate place here at the top right. Let's go ahead and see what applications are installed out of the box here in Ubuntu 2210. So if I go to activities, actually activities is not what I want. I should have clicked this button at the bottom show applications. So we have our additional drivers program. So I ticked on to install our proprietary drivers during the installation process. Had I not done that, I could still get those drivers. I would need to click on this particular program here and it would give me my proprietary NVIDIA driver or proprietary Wi-Fi driver or whatever it happened to be for my particular hardware. We also have a game installed I'll Riot Solitaire. This particular card game, this I'll Riot Solitaire game, I believe has been installed on every version of Ubuntu since the beginning because I remember playing I'll Riot Solitaire when I first switched to Linux on the desktop back in like 2008 and I'll Riot Solitaire was installed even on those versions of Ubuntu. We have our GNOME calendar program. We have language support. We have videos. So this is your standard GNOME videos program here. I don't have anything to watch, but it is just your standard video playing application. If I go to the menu and I go to I was looking for the about section to see what version we're on. That's the help section. But video is also known as Totem. Totem is actually the real name of the program. So if you were launching the video program from the command line or from a terminal, you would type Totem. I don't know why they put generic names in the menu system such as videos. That seems a little strange to me. I think in some cases it does the user a disservice to hide the actual name of the program from them because sometimes you will need to launch these things from the command line and it would be nice if they actually were told what the names of these programs were up front. We also have the GNOME calculator and the GNOME calculator is a fine calculator. It's got some basic functionality as well as more advanced features for those of you that need a proper scientific calculator. It's really a great calculator. This is the GNOME calculator 43.0.1. We have LibreOffice install. We have LibreOffice Impress, which is the presentation program. LibreOffice Math is also here. We have LibreOffice the start screen. And I'm assuming they probably would have installed the word processor as well. It may be on the next screen. Is there anything else? Oh, let me just do a search for LibreOffice. Yeah, draw calc. That's a spreadsheet program and writer. And that's the word processing program. They are all installed out of the box here. Let's see what version of LibreOffice they are on here. So I'm going to go ahead and launch LibreOffice writer, which is our free and open source alternative to something like Microsoft Word. If I go to help and about LibreOffice, this is LibreOffice 7.4.2.3. Close that out. We also have a document scanner for those of you that still have a printer or scanner hooked up, and I actually sometimes do have the need to scan a document. So that's nice that this is included. Let's see. This is document scanner 42.5. You can see it's a simple document scanning tool. I believe the scanning program I typically install on my systems is a program called ScanLite. I don't know if ScanLite is still around or not. I actually haven't needed to scan anything in a while. But there's a few scanning utilities available on Linux for a terminal. We have the GNOME terminal installed. Of course, the GNOME terminal is a fine terminal emulator. Let me zoom in a little bit. Let's do a U name if I can spell U name dash R. Let's go ahead and get the kernel version 5.19.0. So that's a recent version of the Linux kernel. That's actually more recent than the kernel I'm running on my Arco Linux. I'm actually on 5.15, the 5.15 series. But I'm running the LTS kernels rather than the standard kernel. Now is Htop installed out of the box? Of course not. This is one of the problems I have with Ubuntu. I've had it for many, many years as they don't install Htop out of the box and they don't install Vium out of the box because those are two such standard GNU Linux utilities that should be installed on every single Linux distribution known to man. There's just no excuse and they're small programs, really, really small programs. So I just wish somebody at Canonical would wise up and actually just install these things out of the box. I'm going to go ahead and do a sudo apt update and and sudo apt upgrade. Let's go ahead and sync the mirrors and run a quick upgrade. And then after that's done, I'm going to do sudo apt install Htop and sudo apt install Vium. You can see there is nothing to upgrade very recent release of Ubuntu. So now I'm going to do sudo apt install Vium space Htop. Get those programs installed. Now let me go ahead and run Htop. Let's check system resource usage. Now I did install Ubuntu 2210 using the ZFS file system, right? So because that file system does actually use some memory, like if you give it RAM, it can use the RAM. It's not a hog or anything. It's just a more performant file system. So the RAM usage for ZFS is going to be a little higher than if I had done extend for as a file system. Typically Ubuntu on extend for file systems on my machines typically use this like 800 megs of RAM of six gigs. In this case, it's using about 1.2 gigs. Again, that's just strictly because it's using ZFS. It's actually really pippy. Like if I minimize this and drag everything around and you can see the menu systems. You know, it's actually this virtual machine, even for a virtual machine is running quite nicely. So I've actually been pretty happy with the performance here in the last few minutes, just playing around with this virtual machine for those wondering about the file system. If I do a LS BLK for list block devices, you can see the partition scheme that it did with the ZFS file system there. Also, you can see all the loopback devices for the snaps that are installed, and which was interesting because the next command I was going to run was going to be snap list, which lists all the snaps installed. But you could also see them because they're also listed as loops in the LS BLK command as well. But the snaps that are installed. Now, let me zoom out a little bit because the lines are actually breaking on me. So if I zoom out, you can see the snap list command. There's really not much installed as a snap. Firefox, of course, is installed as a snap pack. And that's because Mozilla, the publisher of that particular package, has chosen to package it for Ubuntu as a snap. That's not a canonical decision. That's a Mozilla decision. I know a lot of people want to give Ubuntu a lot of flak for that, but that's not their problem. And to be honest, it's not really a problem anyway. If you don't like Firefox as a snap, you can probably go find a dead pack for it. You can probably find it as a flat pack. And as I have mentioned, like there's a million ways you can go get Firefox, and it really doesn't matter if you really hate snaps. Just uninstall it. And but again, a lot of people just uninstall these snaps for no real reason, for ideology reasons. I guess a lot of people want to uninstall them. Like I'm going to stick it to Ubuntu. I'm going to remove snaps from my machine. I promise you, Mark Shuttleworth is not losing any sleep at night. He's not, you know, at night curled up in a fetal position, sucking on his thumb and worried about whether you want to install that Firefox snap. But hey, do what you want to do. Other than the Firefox snap, the only other thing here is a snap pack. As far as our actual program is the snap store. So this would be like a GNOME software center that is connected to the snap craft store. Now, let me clear the screen. One other thing I want to do is I want to do an at list space, dash, dash installed. Let's get a listing of everything that is installed on this system. So remember, I did the normal installation, not the minimal installation. So I'm going to up arrow and get that same command. And now what I'm going to do is I'm going to pipe that through WC space dash L. So I'm going to pipe it into the word count program dash L means give me a line count rather than a word count. And there are 1738 lines in that output, which means there's 1738 packages installed out of the box on Ubuntu. Well, 1736 because I installed Htop and Vim additionally. So let me go ahead and exit out of the terminal. They're going back to the applications menu. Let me go ahead and see what else is installed. We have a couple of more games. We have mahjong and mines. Mines is actually one of my favorites. Let me move my head out of the way. You have really cool minesweeper type game. We also have cheese for our webcam application, Remina, which is for connecting to remote machines through something like SSH. For example, we have rhythm box for our music player. Rhythm box is a standard GNOME application and rhythm box is actually one of the best audio players available on Linux. Also under applications, we have Shotwill for a photo manager. And on this screen, we also have our startup disk creator for making your USB sticks. We have Sudoku for another game. We also have transmission for our BitTorrent client. And we have TextEditor. Now TextEditor is interesting because this is no longer G-Edit. G-Edit has been the standard GNOME TextEditor, plain text editor forever as long as I've ever used Linux. But now they're no longer using G-Edit. We have switched over to TextEditor. And that's actually the name. TextEditor. You can see TextEditor 43.1. Horrible name. I wish it was something that wasn't so bland and generic. One other thing to point out as far as applications, they no longer ship a to-do application out of the box here in Ubuntu. And that's because the application they were using, I think there was an issue with it. So it just didn't make it into the release for 22.10. Looking around the GNOME shell here, you know, this is GNOME 43. It's the desktop environment. So the latest version of GNOME. And honestly, it looks good. There is the calendar and the system tray here is actually really nice. We have our session button here. If I click on that, then I get an extra menu here that appears and this is just really well done. I've got to say this is nice, especially we have the option of changing to a dark mode, right? This is actually a really fantastic release of GNOME. Now, some interesting new design improvements with some of these applications. If I do settings here for a search, let me go to the GNOME settings program and go full screen. I don't know if you guys noticed that, but when it was smaller, it actually almost changes. It's all it's an adaptive design is what they call it. But it's almost like when you resize a web browser, depending on the resolution, whether it's on a full screen desktop monitor or on a mobile device, the design, the layout changes. So you can see when I get really small, we lose what was in the main window, the main pane, and now I just have like the navigation pane here. And if I widen it out, we get everything showing again. So that is a rather interesting design choice. And I believe the Nautilus file manager does the same thing. Let me click on the icon here in the launcher, Nautilus. So if I want to shrink this a little bit, I can go down. And then, of course, the bookmarks pane, right? We have our bookmarks over here for the file manager. That goes away once you make this a certain size, right? Once it gets small enough, it just pushes all that information to the side. So once again, I actually quite like that. One thing under the hood people should be aware of is Ubuntu now in 22.10 is using pipe wire by default for an audio server. One last thing I want to check. I always, of course, check the wallpapers and Ubuntu, especially, is always known for every single release, putting out a fantastic wallpaper pack. They really put out just some really neat wallpapers. So I'm going to go to Appearance here. And of course, we have our style where we can choose our accent colors and whether we want a light or a dark theme as well, but the wallpapers. Let's go ahead and try some of these out and to actually see the wallpaper, I will actually make this as small as I can to get it out of the way. So, yeah, I love that. So that is the kudu, right? The African antelope that sounds like doodoo, right? Kudu, but that is a really cool piece of abstract art there. And of course, we have some nature photography here. I love that wallpaper. That is a gorgeous photo. I may have to steal that one. I may have to put that on my Arco machine. And of course, some more Ubuntu branding stuff, some more kudu. And of course, that is the default and more really fantastic photography as well. For me, I think I really like the nature photograph here, this lake scene. I think that is rather classy. So that was just a quick and cursory look at the recently released Ubuntu 22.10 codenamed Kinetic Kudu. Now, I think it's a fantastic release. I want to congratulate the team over at Canonical and everybody within the Ubuntu community that contributed to this. Now, for those of you that are on Ubuntu 22.04, should you update to 22.10? Absolutely not. You should not go from a long term support release to one of these interim releases unless you have a real need because you need the latest and greatest software. Maybe you need that new kernel because you have a really new piece of equipment that needs a new kernel for 99% of you guys out there. If you're running Ubuntu on the desktop stick to the LTS releases, because when you go to the interim release, you have to understand this is only supported for nine months. So in the next release that comes out in six months, you're expected to wipe out your system or do a massive upgrade and go to that. So you're kind of trapped in this every six month cycle where you have to update because after nine months, they're going to turn off the repositories. You're no longer going to receive any updates on the interim releases where the LTS releases are supported up to five years. If you choose to run them that long, corporate customers can actually extend that support all the way out to 10 years on the LTS releases. So again, for most people, I think if you're already on 2204, I wouldn't bother upgrading plus the GNOME improvements while GNOME 43 is a nice update from GNOME 42. There's not enough difference in there to make it worth it in my opinion. 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