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greetings and salutations thanks for clicking on the video today we're going to take a sneak peek at a boon to LTS it is called jean yella Xirrus alright so the first word is looks like Z Niall I'm not exactly sure what it means EX II in I a L but I did look up the pronunciation and it's john l a serious X er us' is a ground squirrel that lives in Africa so we continue the tradition of a boon to coming up with crazy code names for their release is based on weird animals it is always a big deal when a boon to releases a long-term support version simply because there are so many other projects in the Linux world that depend on a boon to there are all the flavors of a boon to with different desktop environments and then there are many OS is that are actually based on a boon to like Linux Mint elementary zoran in so forth and so it's a big deal schools me all right this time around I'm actually prepared I have notes most of the time when I do these videos I just sort of loaded up and give you my first impression those are the look at videos somebody criticize me on that point in the comments and that I should do more research and I have mixed feelings about that yes I do like to do research before I do these videos but at the same time I also want to give you my experience as it happens when I'm looking at the operating system hopefully to mir the kind of experience that you would have because for instance with elementary I didn't know half the names of all that stuff it wasn't in there anywhere and also with openSUSE I failed to mention the one click install feature somebody said well why did you talk about that I said well because it's not apparent anywhere when you actually install the system and start looking around the one-click feature in open
SUSE is that you can go to their website do a search for a particular program and then just click on it and it will install on your machine which you have to admit it is pretty cool anyway back to a boon to before I get off rambling on about something else I did make notes and there are a lot of features to talk about however there won't be a great deal of exciting stuff to see in this video simply because of the fact that at this stage of development it looks like Wiley werewolf but a few of the important features have made it in and I figured they were far enough along on the daily builds this will be a good time to take a look at one we are still what six seven weeks out from the official release of a boon to and we can start looking around and talking about the features here by the way the host operating system we're running this on is a boon to which is the last long-term sport release from two years ago ok this is what it looks like we have an error about correcting the monitor settings that's probably because it's running in a virtual environment I did have a bit of a problem getting this install there I ran across a bug but I found a workaround and I'll tell you about that a little bit later on in the video it was a bit of an adventure to get it actually install them up and running in VirtualBox but once I got through that I have not run into any major issues it's actually worked quite well and I did this last night so alright let's talk about some of the big changes that we're looking forward to in a boon to first of all let's talk a little bit about what an LTS is for those of you who may not be familiar a boon to releases a version every six months like clockwork and they do it in the fourth month and the temp months and that's why you have the version numbers for instance like it was released in and and October so it's and then every two years they do the long term support release and the long-term sport release is supported for five years so the current long-term sport release is a boon to and it will receive security updates until meaning that if you are running that on your computer right now that you don't have to worry about having to upgrade or reinstall however after two years development ceases on an LTS and so pretty much after comes along than no force probably not going to get a whole ton of new features and that sort of thing however the canonical developers have actually done a lot of back porting to in the last two years so a lot of new features have come back to it anyway like you can upgrade the kernel it started out with the colonel and then went to and now we're on you have to install that if you want it but it's available for a boon to so I'm assuming that they'll kind of continue to do that and of course was a huge release for a boon to get launched into a whole new level appears to be more of the same and it's not going to be that much difference let's jump in and take a look at a couple of things first of all we need to talk about the kernel because this time around they actually have a long-term support release the colonel in here in came along the feature lock-in happened before the Linux Foundation released the $ version of kernel which was a long-term sport release a boon to decided that they would maintain which they did and then they went to which now if you install Kubuntu that's what you're going to get and also colonel is available in a long-term sport package from a boon to but this time around we're going to start with colonel four-dot for dot dash that's what's running and this is an official Linux Foundation long-term sport release that is pretty cool now couple of really big things that they've done here that I am very happy to see if you install a boon to and I'm the one who is telling you to do it the first thing or telling you how to do it or stepping through this I do this with every easy Linux client the first thing that you need to do before you do anything else once installed is go to this security and Privacy tab thing in the settings please and go to this search and turn this off this is now disabled by default and what this is is that up until now from like I don't know when they started this it was either like it's been a long time ago game that they've had this feature in here when you would go to search in the dash on a boon to lynn it would go out to Amazon and Wikipedia and a bunch of other places and try and find web results for your search and a lot of folks in the Linux community considered that to be back into adware or spyware which it was and it is because the the idea behind it was that a boon to would get a little bit of a kickback would generate a revenue stream for them they're actually selling a boon to users search results to Amazon or whoever it was and so you could switch it off and that was the first thing I was told people to do because number one it didn't work very well and number two it would return very strange results like for instance if you went into the dash if you went into the dash this over the one hundred and indeed type in Daraa for instance okay and you were going after bracero right here which is disc burner program right if you get ads that came up in the bottom four broads it was it was goofy so you know nobody wanted to see that so now it's switched off by default the functionality is still here should there be any person out there who actually wants it and I don't know who that is but if you are one of those people maybe you ought to go have your head checked but anyway that's number one there that's a cool thing that they finally did you still get the little Amazon web app over here in the launcher when you first started off and that is if you open that up and then you login to your Amazon account and you buy something the boon to get a tiny percentage of that so it's a way that you can support a boon to if you wanted to the Unity launcher this
this thing over here we have two of them because we have won of form we have one on you can't move this up until now you could not move this at all it's it is where it is and you could auto hide it but the auto hide function was a little bit strange didn't work very well and you would actually have to swipe and kind of bang the mouse cursor over to the edge of the screen to get that to work you couldn't just drag it over and touch it and so I never auto hide it I was just leave it there simply because it works funny now they are going to make it so that we can move that to the bottom if we want to and so we can have more of a traditional look to the desktop still no word on being able to get this bar to auto hide but you will be able to move that now in this current build there is no setting to do that I looked all over the place in the behavior for the launcher I even installed the Unity tweak tool to see if I could get that functionality and it's not here yet so I'm sure that that will come along when they do the finishing touches on the system that should be interesting to see exactly how that functionality works what else is there to talk about ZFS is something that needs to be mentioned now most folks who watch this video gonna be standard desktop users and they're going to be very happy with ext for which is the standard file system that is used on your hard drives when you install a boon to however if you have a lot of large files or if you are running a very large storage array like a RAID system with a lot of drives in it there is a really cool new thing called ZFS and native to BSD Unix and it has been their standard file system for a while now and a lot of folks in Linux have wanted to have a ported over and a boon to is doing that and I just want to confirm is this still the standard I knew that because ZFS is just going to be a choice if you do a custom install like if you're doing a server so in the installer they may have a box that you can tick through that and that's a big deal for enterprise users and people who want to print servers it's not that big a deal for folks like us just a desktop ext four is perfectly fine for that and it's a more interesting that you can always check it out this Software Center other lovely Software Center you know since I guess a boon to I have done everything in my power to avoid using the Software Center I install synaptic package manager in call from the terminal and use the G Debbie package installer to install that files and never used that thing well they have finally decided that they're going to dump that so it goes away goes by by you know I had somebody in a comment to a video they were actually arguing with me talking about how great Software Center was the last time that I tried to use software center was probably a week or two ago I was trying to do a quick and dirty install and my mistake I actually use the software center to try and install Google Chrome from the deb file and what happened was crashed halfway in between and I had to restart the computer and I wouldn't install gdb and did it right now work just fine the Software Center is it was really just not very good all the way around so the solution now is to use this nifty new tool that comes to us from the GNOME project the GNOME project has this application called software it is cross-platform you can use it on any operating system that has the GNOME desktop native to it so you can use this entrepreneurial you can use it on arch I don't know about openSUSE but it was actually in open susan when I looked because I install the new version so maybe you can I'm not really sure how that works in there and this is a graphic installer for software and right now they do not seem to have it hooked up to anything this is just showing what is actually installed in the system even when you do a search here so let's try and find geary say nothing there but if I look at four-under bird say it comes up because it installed so the software is installed in this daily Bild but it is not working as of yet I'm pretty sure that that will be done by the time the full release comes out the official finished version they were talking about doing this there was some speculation that maybe they would not have this finished by the time that came along I am really happy to see this particular application here so for the time being for graphical installation on this vmi went ahead and installed synaptic and put G Deb I on here so but this is cool feature that I'm very happy to see coming along I tried for Dora a while back and I played around with that and it it wasn't quite working right in Fedora economy downloaded for Dora like a day or two after it came out and they hadn't completely fleshed it out yet but from what I could get it to do it was really cool so I'm looking forward to working with that application firmware updates will be able to be installed from a boon to natively and this has to do with the Linux kernel four-dot to which means that you can update your bias and EFI firmware from the desktop before I think you had to probably do that from a terminal or whatever so that is something that's coming along and you can do that through known software so it will handle firmware which is really cool as a graphical way of doing that so awesome sauce like I said once they get the whole known software package set up and ready to go then there you go unity eight is going to be available in June to so they default version will be unity seven which is pretty much what we have in a boon to now and and all of the interim releases and then you will have the option to install unity eight which is the next version that comes along unity eight is going to be something that will maybe be default by a boon to by we will have moved on from seven and beyond a maybe we will see unity aid has been a long time in development a really long time and I heard an interview not too long ago somebody asked Mark Shuttleworth about it and he said that they just wanted to make sure that it was perfect before they made it the default but it will be available to you if you want to get unity will be the default and finally as I mentioned in the last video the Q&A I was talking about snappy package management that should be available in Boone choose a matter of fact it's on here now but I have no clue how to use it and you have to do it from a command line and I have I wouldn't even know where to look so what is snappy what is that all about well the snappy is a new way of installing software on a boon to system what it does is it goes out to get her which is a repository for source code and so if you wanted to install a snappy package it would go out to get her to get the source code and compile it locally on your machine and it would do that in a sandbox which means that right now if you use sudo apt-get install what you're actually doing as you give that installer root access it has access it has the ability to change everything on the machine which is cool if you trust exactly where that packages coming from with snappy when you install it it doesn't have to have root access and so that that's pretty cool so you can install a piece of software you can play with it you can use it and you never had to give the system access to install it and so we will learn more about snappy as we roll along and that is supposed to be available here in and going to be an option as they develop that project that you can play with a don't think that that is ready for primetime yet but it will be here you can play with it so there you go again it is a look at a few not much to see because not much has changed especially in this early version they do have some different wallpapers in here to look at and but the thing is is that when they get to the official release that's when all of the final touches in the cosmetic things will be in place and let me tell you about the installation that I went through I save this to the end of the video because I figured some people wouldn't care about this so I go and install the daily bill no big deal do a search on the just do a search on the web for a boon to daily Bild and you'll find it on the boon to site and so I downloaded it in a booted it up our FAQ was just go ahead and booted up a show you what it did it won't be that big a deal to show you go ahead and shut this down but what I did was I downloaded it and then I went to install it and it would only get so far and then I got an error crash that said that the ubiquity installer had crashed so if I come in here and I go to go to storage and then I want to attach a new device and I am going to get one of these days I downloaded it twice by accident attached that ok now when I start this up it should offer the live DVD image well you'll see what it does it'll just crash in the ubiquity installer will not work and hopefully I can recreate this so I can show this to you because this was called this is something I've never seen a boon to do before when there was an error and I was able to fix the problem and I'm gonna show you how but it what it turned out to be after I did a little research was is that right now if you try and install his daily build on a computer that is a laptop and has a battery it won't work it'll crash there's some sort of subsystem in there that detects whether you're running on a laptop with a battery ok this should crash there goes continue here and now it's gonna go try and filed that report and the only way to actually get it installed is to remove the battery from the laptop and I should get a Firefox here that pops up and it will actually take us directly to that bug report here it is so I was able to go in here and we read the bug report to find the workaround I have never seen this system actually take you to the bug report before so that was really cool I wish I could get that read review thing to go away thank you so it actually took you to the bug report and then you could look up the workarounds in the comments down here so if it's a known bug that's causing a problem on your system it will take you to the launch pad site there and pretty cool huh so what I did was to install was simply take the battery out of the laptop shut it down take the battery out plug power supply in reboot the system I guess through virtual box toolbox hypervisor actually reports that it's a laptop to the virtual machine you can probably change that setting in there but I just took the battery out and then I was able to install after I installed it that way which is some really cool everything worked I didn't have any problem getting the drivers installed for the guest additions in VirtualBox or anything so that was pretty awesome down now because we're done playing around and I'm about done with the video so there you go gang it's a sneak peak is what it looks like I'm sure it will be different in seven or eight weeks when it comes along for real and all of the final touches will be in place in course I'm just gonna run and run updates on and occasionally and usually these daily bills they will actually become the standard operating system with updates so if you want to you could actually install this and play with it now and just don't do it on any machine that you need to make sure is working because this is like a beta at this point and very unstable like here it's not wanting to shut down alright I hope you enjoyed the video be sure and check out freedom penguin dot com that's a cool articles coming up on freedom penguin lately all the contributors there check out easy Linux on the web check out easy Linux at Facebook and if you do that give it a like if you would please I'd appreciate it and we will talk again soon thanks for watching game
