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Well, here we are. After six busy months, one beta and a bunch of minor changes, the final stable release of Ubuntu 15.04 is now ready for you to download.

Only a modest set of improvements are rolling out with Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet. While this means the release can’t rival the heavy change-logs of releases past, the adage ‘don’t fix what isn’t broke’ is clearly one the Vervet plays to.
 
The bug fixes, improvements in usability and a fresh serving of software updates add up to a somewhat substantive total, creating a release that feels more polished than ever.
 
Enough chatter. Let’s dive in and see what’s new in Ubuntu 15.04.

 


 

Ubuntu 15.04 – New Features
 
Systemd
The headline change in Ubuntu 15.04 is the introduction of the Systemd init system at boot-time.
This is the software that initializes (hence the name ‘init’) first when booting, and handles loading of the various modules and background processes that make much of a modern computer operating system do what it needs to.
Ubuntu previously used Upstart, its own custom-made Init system, at boot time. When Debian, the Linux distribution that Ubuntu is built upon, chose to adopt Systemd Ubuntu understandably fell in line.
Upstart is available in 15.04. It’s included as a fallback in GRUB and is used for controlling user sessions.
The merits (or lack thereof) of the switch are largely moot for the less technically minded. It is possible that some users will notice a slight change in boot speed depending on their configuration.
 
Unity 7.3
The Unity desktop environment used by default in Ubuntu 15.04 receives a handful of small refinements, most of which aim to either fix bugs or correct missteps in earlier versions.
For example, application menus can now be set to ‘Always Show’.
Yeah; you no longer have to push your mouse to the top of the screen to show the ‘File’, ‘Edit’, ‘Help’, etc menus — not if you don’t want to.
If you prefer having your applications menus available inside application windows use the toggle in System Settings > Appearance > Behaviour to set things up how you like.
These “locally integrated menus”, introduced in 14.10, also support the ‘Always Show’ feature and showing up on mouseover of unfocused windows.
Other improvements to Unity in Vivid Vervet include a fix for showing the overlay elements (HUD, Dash, etc) over fullscreen windows and small adjustments to the speed of login and logout animations.
 
Compiz 0.9.12
Powering the Unity desktop experience is Compiz, the tried-and-trusted window manager. In keeping with the rest of this release the changes it gets are modest and made up of bug fixes and compatibility with alternative desktop environments.
 
Ubuntu Linux Kernel 3.19
While not based on the latest version of the Linux Kernel Ubuntu 15.04 ships with a modified version of  3.19.3 one. Expect a few updates to the most recent 3.19.x patch releases shortly after release.
 
Application Updates
You’ll also find updated versions many of Ubuntu’s default apps, including the latest Firefox web-browser and Thunderbird e-mail client, a new version of the Rhythmbox music player plus an entirely revamped Totem video player.

  • LibreOffice 4.4
  • Firefox 37
  • Thunderbird 31.6
  • Shotwell 0.20.2
  • Nautilus 3.14.2
  • Evince 3.14.2
  • Rhythmbox 3.1
  • Totem 3.14.1
  • GNOME Terminal 3.14
New Default Wallpaper
Ubuntu’s default wallpaper choice is irrelevant to some, integral to others. Whatever side of the fence you sit on the new wallpaper is palatable enough. After all: first impressions count.

Expect to see this new design flash up in various ‘Ubuntu in the wild’ posts over the next six months!

Ubuntu Make
Having been formally introduced in last October’s release the ‘Ubuntu Developer Tools Center’ has undergone a number of changes for Vivid, including being renamed as the more memorable ‘Ubuntu Make’.

Ubuntu Make simplifies the process of installing a host of developer-focused tools, editors, libraries and software development kits including the Android SDK, IDEA, PyCharm, and the new Firefox Developer Edition.

Improvements to the way library managers behave now allows multiple system libraries to be run/used without conflict.

 


The urge to go back to Linux is real... It doesn't look like much has changed on the surface but there was a lot of improvements happening underneath. I got the build from 4/17 running in VirtualBox and it truly feels like a more polished 14.04 LTS.

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So I can finally upgrade my media center to a stable version of Ubuntu 15.

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Doesn't seem like a worthwhile upgrade for those of us in the server space.

Took me long enough to get everything launching on startup using upstart, I'd rather not relearn an entirely new system while it's still at it's infancy, at least as far as the OS is concerned.

 

Looks like I'll be waiting till 16.04  B)

 

 

So I can finally upgrade my media center to a stable version of Ubuntu 15.

 
I wouldn't, if it's not broke don't fix it. Especially as far as media drivers are concerned

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Doesn't seem like a worthwhile upgrade for those of us in the server space.

Took me long enough to get everything launching on startup using upstart, I'd rather not relearn an entirely new system while it's still at it's infancy, at least as far as the OS is concerned.

 

Looks like I'll be waiting till 16.04   B)

 

I wouldn't, if it's not broke don't fix it. Especially as far as media drivers are concerned

Definitely not good for the server ecosystem. As with the changes to the init system along with release support. Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS should be used until the next LTS. Although as a desktop distribution it's looking like a worthy upgrade from 14.04 as 14.10 wasn't all that great.
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Doesn't seem like a worthwhile upgrade for those of us in the server space.

Took me long enough to get everything launching on startup using upstart, I'd rather not relearn an entirely new system while it's still at it's infancy, at least as far as the OS is concerned.

 

Looks like I'll be waiting till 16.04  B)

 

 
 
I wouldn't, if it's not broke don't fix it. Especially as far as media drivers are concerned

 

I'm running the 15.04 beta, and its been having issues on and off.

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I'm running the 15.04 beta, and its been having issues on and off.

What issues?
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What issues?

Random crashes, some drivers seem to work only half of the time. Ubuntu 14.04 never had any problems.

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Random crashes, some drivers seem to work only half of the time. Ubuntu 14.04 never had any problems.

I haven't experienced any crashes although drivers usually don't mature until after a release.
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Definitely not good for the server ecosystem. As with the changes to the init system along with release support. Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS should be used until the next LTS. Although as a desktop distribution it's looking like a worthy upgrade from 14.04 as 14.10 wasn't all that great.

14.10 was far more stable for my school system based on the I7 2600K, Asus Z68 (I think) WS, and GTX 570.

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14.10 was far more stable for my school system based on the I7 2600K, Asus Z68 (I think) WS, and GTX 570.

It's updated kernel is all it had going for it (hardware support).
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from my experiance,a virtual machine is usually not the best way to use linux, you better off installing it onto a separte drive/partition.

 

that said, I'll wait a bit before I do a distro update 

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Looks like Ubuntu 15.04 has menu's in the menu bar by default instead of the expect window title.

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Something that must of got quickly changed before the final release.

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It's updated kernel is all it had going for it (hardware support).

Nah, it had much more than that or it wouldn't have worked so flawlessly.

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For those who are going to try this out in VirtualBox you may experience a login loop problem. You can fix this by just installing the guest additions like so.

1.) Insert guest additions ISO.

2.) Jump to a command line CTRL + ALT + F3

3.) Login

4.) Run the following.

cd /sudo mount /dev/cdrom /mntsudo ./mnt/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

Nah, it had much more than that or it wouldn't have worked so flawlessly.

Literally that was the showcase of Ubuntu 14.10 was it's 3.16 kernel. I just manually updated my 14.04 install to the 3.17 kernel as it wasn't worth jumping to 14.10.
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Well time to download the Ubuntu and amazing Lubuntu isos

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Random crashes, some drivers seem to work only half of the time. Ubuntu 14.04 never had any problems.

 

crashes on ubuntu seems odd to me! never but never had i have crashes even with a alpha version. The kernel on ubuntu is rock solid the best kernel of every OS out there. Been running Ubuntu and Mint Dual boot ubuntu for 12 years never had a crash and mint crashed once when i edited the kernel lol :)

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crashes on ubuntu seems odd to me! never but never had i have crashes even with a alpha version. The kernel on ubuntu is rock solid the best kernel of every OS out there. Been running Ubuntu and Mint Dual boot ubuntu for 12 years never had a crash and mint crashed once when i edited the kernel lol :)

I kind of expected issues as it is the beta version, so it was never a big deal, I made sure to log each problem and report it anyway so I actually did what your mainly supposed to do in a beta and found bugs. (Also, OS/2 is the most stable OS, the ATMs it was used in (mabye use if all haven't been updated) would only have down time with an update of some sort or a power outage. Heck, its first iteration had a GUI that rivaled Mac OS and Windows 3.1, and was able to run multiple copies of DOS and Win 3.1 flawlessly.

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As long as doing everything in Linux is based of terminal commands linux still wont be any more popular,they can make version ubuntu 100 still not gonna happen.

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When's the next LTS? 16.04?

 A year away from now :P

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i test it, and i like it  ^_^ (great post btw Opcode)

 

(now i need test the Ubuntu GNOME flavor lol)  B)

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Runs much better on my i3 350m laptop. Before 15.04(Gnome) only 1 of my 4 cores at a time. It looked like it was just passing the stack to the next core, the CPU monitor looked like sounds waves. Now all 4 work at the same time.

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Trying to install it on my i5 rig. It crashed during the install and corrupted the USB

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And now its just slow to get to the next step, and I'm installing off a USB 3.0 USB to an SSD.

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We do not sell cosmetics. We just blind animals."

 

"Please don't mistake us for Equifax. Those fuckers are evil"

 

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When's the next LTS? 16.04?

Yes. I thought it was every third release, but it turns out that it's every 2 years.

Having a five year support cycle on LTS releases is pretty nice though.

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