Ubuntu Desktop 18.10 Installation on VirtualBox 5.2 | Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish Released
1In this video we are going to see how to install Ubuntu Desktop 18.10 in VirtualBox 5.2.
Ubuntu Desktop 18.10 new features are:
OpenSSL 1.1.1 - support for TLSv1.3 standard. Multiple client and server applications have been enabled to use TLSv1.3 by default in Ubuntu 18.10. The older 1.0.2 series OpenSSL is still available.
Linux Kernel 4.18 - 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
glibc 2.28, OpenJDK 11, boost 1.67, rustc 1.28, and updated GCC 8.2, python 3.6.7 as default, python 3.7.1 as supported, ruby 2.5.1, php 7.2.10, perl 5.26.2, golang 1.10.4. There are new improvements on the cross-compilers front as well with POWER toolchain enabled to cross-compile for ARM targets.
GNOME desktop 3.30.
GNOME Disks now supports VeraCrypt.
Settings includes a panel to manage Thunderbolt devices and shows those panels only where the relevant hardware is detected.
More shell components are cached in GPU RAM to reduce load and increase FPS count.
Desktop zoom is now a lot smoother.
Smoothing of window previews is now dependant on CPU/GPU availability so that busy applications don't impact the whole system when window previews are visible.
Added the option to automatically submit error reports to the error reporting dialog window.
Fingerprint libraries promoted to main to allow unlocking with fingerprints.
Added snap support to XDG Portals and landed support in Ubuntu.
The latest version of GS Connect is now packaged in the archive and easily installed.
Firefox 63.0 and LibreOffice 6.1.2 are available and installed by default.
Yaru Theme Updated.