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[Sushubh]

heh. my problem was also probably due to nvidia because that machine had a geforce card. i still do not understand why a problem with display driver would disable the login button on the boot screen. 🤷‍♀️

 

[vishalrao]

This indian mirror is much faster (at least on my bsnl ftth 100 mbps plan) than esto but can't say about how well maintained it is... see http://mirrors.piconets.webwerks.in/ubuntu-mirror/

 

[a.c]

It's mostly up to date. A few days behind for the 20.04.
You can check the status here

PicoNets WebWerks : Ubuntu

launchpad.net

 

[warpspeed]

I tried everything and for me the fastest is the one in singapore 🤔

Index of /ubuntu/

 

[vignesh_venkatesan]

@manojrk Chennai folks like us have better connectivity to singapore compared to our connectivity to the other Indian cities like Mumbai or Bangalore.

 

[vishalrao]

Yeah, for me (Pune BSNL FTTH) I use the denmark ubuntu mirror (dotsrc.org or dk.archive.ubuntu.com) because it has been reliable and fast for me.

I have faced issues with the current official indian mirror (esto internet) and even piconets webwerks servers too.

 

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[sanke3]

I used torrent and it maxed out my 100 Mbps connection.

 

[Sushubh]

Canonical Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is released | Canonical

London, 21 April 2022. Canonical Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is now generally available, featuring significant leaps forward in cloud confidential computing, real-time kernel for industrial applications, and enterprise Active Directory, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, FIPS and FedRAMP compliance – raising the bar for open...

ubuntu.com

 

[Sushubh]

Ubuntu Flavors Will Stop Using Flatpak

Flatpak will no longer feature in the default install of Ubuntu's 8 official flavors, with devs agreeing to only support deb and snap software OOTB.

www.omgubuntu.co.uk

 

[Sushubh]

Ubuntu 23.04 Beta is Available to Download

If you've been dying to download the Ubuntu 23.03 beta it's time to go get it — downloads are now officially available! This beta build arrives in advance

www.omgubuntu.co.uk

 

[Sushubh]

It's official: Ubuntu Cinnamon remix has been voted in

And it looks like educational flavor Edubuntu is returning, too

www.theregister.com

 

[Sushubh]

Ubuntu Desktop: charting a course for the future | Ubuntu

In this post we share our values and vision for Ubuntu Desktop, and how this framework can help structure and support our collaboration with the community. […]

ubuntu.com

 

[Navjot Singh]

Source


Source

This became such a huge problem that Canonical had to remove existing images and delay the release a bit. I am surprised no one caught them when they were being written to the code.

 

[Navjot Singh]

[Announcement] Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 release image translation incident - now resolved

This post was updated on Oct 16, 2023 at 18:26 BST. We are pleased to announce that, following an audit of all desktop installer translations, Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 is available for download from https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop Updated builds for Ubuntu Budgie 23.10 and Ubuntu Desktop 23.10...

discourse.ubuntu.com

 

[Navjot Singh]

Ubuntu Update Adds Support for 118 New Emoji

A brown mushroom, a slice of lime, and a fiery phoenix — no, that's not the start of a rubbish joke but a selection of the 118 new emoji added to the

www.omgubuntu.co.uk

Rolling out to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and 23.10 this week is an update to the Noto Color Emoji font that’s includes full support for all of the new emoji in Unicode 15.1. And Ubuntu users can see and use these new emoji well before Apple users, as well!