• New Features Coming to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS - It's FOSS

    From Andrei Z.@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jan 12 17:23:20 2022
    "This is a continually updated article that lists all the main features
    being added to the upcoming Ubuntu 22.04 LTS ‘Jammy Jellyfish’ release."

    https://itsfoss.com/ubuntu-22-04-release-features/

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  • From Marco Moock@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jan 12 16:53:42 2022
    Am Mittwoch, 12. Januar 2022, um 17:23:20 Uhr schrieb Andrei Z.:

    "This is a continually updated article that lists all the main
    features being added to the upcoming Ubuntu 22.04 LTS ‘Jammy
    Jellyfish’ release."

    https://itsfoss.com/ubuntu-22-04-release-features/


    | Ubuntu 22.04 LTS will have Grub bootloader version 2.06 but there is
    | a problem with it. It has os-prober feature disabled by default.
    |
    | This means that if you are on a dual boot system, Grub won’t probe
    | for other operating systems and thus it won’t list Windows (or other
    | OS) in Grub. A few people, who upgraded to the development version of
    | Ubuntu 22.04, have already started facing this issue.
    |
    | It’s not that the problem cannot be fixed. There is a workaround.
    |
    | Install os-prober (usually installed already) and then edit the
    | /etc/default/grub file to add GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false to this
    | file. Save this file, update grub and Grub should see other operating
    | systems now.

    Maybe annoying to new users that want dual boot and aren't familiar
    with changing that.
    The reason is discussed here:

    https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2021-December/041769.html

    | os-prober is inherently insecure as it mounts all partitions
    | on your disk using grub-mount to check them for other OS,
    | which is not a nice thing to do as root as you can exploit
    | bugs in the filesystem code easily.

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