Ubuntu 19.04 Desktop (Disco Dingo) Installation on VirtualBox 6.0 with Guest Additions
In this Video we are going to see how to install Ubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo on VirtualBox 6.0.
After installing the Virtual Machine we install the dependencies for VirtualBox Guest Addition and
Insert the Guest Addition CD image and install it. Then we install Virtualbox guest dkms to enable shared clipboard
and Drag & Drop Features. Ubuntu 19.04 will be supported for 9 months until January 2020.
Ubuntu 19.04 Desktop New Features:
Linux kernel
Ubuntu 19.04 is based on the Linux release series 5.0. It includes support for AMD Radeon RX Vega M graphics processor, complete support for the Raspberry Pi 3B and the 3B+, Qualcomm Snapdragon 845, many USB 3.2 and Type-C improvements, Intel Cannonlake graphics, significant power-savings improvements, P-State driver support for Skylake X servers, POWER memory protection keys support, KVM support for AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization, enablement of Shared Memory Communications remote and direct (SMC-R/D), Open for Business (OFB), and zcrypt on IBM Z among with many other improvements since the v4.15 kernel shipped in 18.04 LTS.
Toolchain Upgrades
Ubuntu 19.04 comes with refreshed state-of-the-art toolchain including new upstream releases of glibc 2.29, OpenJDK 11, boost 1.67, rustc 1.31, and updated GCC 8.3, optional GCC 9, Python 3.7.3 as default, ruby 2.5.5, php 7.2.15, perl 5.28.1, golang 1.10.4. There are new improvements on the cross-compilers front as well with POWER and AArch64 toolchain enabled to cross-compile for ARM, S390X and RISCV64 targets.