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Ubuntu 20.10 "Groovy Gorilla" and Fedora 33 Workstation
Ubuntu 20.10 "Groovy Gorilla"
Codenamed Groovy Gorilla, Ubuntu 20.10 is the latest release in the popular desktop distribution. A short-term release, it will be supported for nine months until July 2021, with an easy upgrade path to the next release. The next Long Term Support (LTS) release is not scheduled until April 2021.
Like all Ubuntu releases, Groovy Gorilla draws many of its packages from the Debian Unstable repository. In keeping with the tradition for short-term releases, it contains no major innovations. However, Groovy Gorilla does include one or two new features that might interest the curious. Chief among these are WiFi sharing through the use of QR codes. In addition, should you like what you see on the DVD, you might try Groovy Gorilla as a desktop on a 4MB or 8MB Raspberry Pi.
Other noteworthy features are included thanks to the shipping of Gnome 3.38. For instance, users can now manually drag and drop icons. When more than nine icons are present in a folder, pagination keeps them from taking up room. Several new features center on the message tray, where upcoming calendar events now display below the calendar widget in the message tray and a battery indicator and reboot option now appear.
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