Canonical/Ubuntu/System76
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LXD Weekly Status #32
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Ubuntu reverting to Xorg in Bionic Beaver
Ten years' worth of effort to replace the Xorg graphics framework has been given a “must try harder” mark by Ubuntu, which says its next release will not use Wayland by default.
Ubuntu's desktop engineering manager Will Cooke made the announcement last Friday, saying the decision applies to the Bionic Beaver release due in April.
He listed three shortcomings in Wayland: screen sharing works (for example in Skype, Hangouts and WebRTC) better in Xorg, remote desktop control ditto, and “recoverability from Shell crashes is less dramatic”.
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System76 Wants to Offer Full Disk Encryption for Its Ubuntu-Based Pop!_OS Linux
System76, the computer reseller specialized in the sale of Linux-based notebook, desktop, and server computers, shared details on new installer work for the next release of Pop!_OS Linux.
It would appear that System76 is collaborating with elementary's Daniel Foré on a new installer, which will offer full disk encryption support, for the next major release of their Ubuntu-Based Pop!_OS Linux distribution, which is coming this spring based on Canonical's Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) operating system.
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