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ThisBeta release includes images from not only the Ubuntu Desktop, Server, and Cloud products, but also the Edubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Cinnamon, UbuntuKylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Studio, Ubuntu Unity and Xubuntu flavors.

The Beta images are known to be reasonably free of showstopper image build or installer bugs, while representing a very recent snapshot of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS that should be representative of the features intended to ship with the final release expected on April 25, 2024.

As fixes will be included in new images between now and release, any daily cloud image from today or later (i.e. a serial of 20240411 or higher) should be considered a Beta image. Bugs found should be filed against the appropriate packages or, failing that, the cloud-images project in Launchpad.

Ubuntu is a full-featured Linux distribution for clients, servers and clouds, with a fast and easy installation and regular releases. A tightly-integrated selection of excellent applications is included, and an incredible variety of add-on software is just a few clicks away.

Hello I am creating an ubuntu 22.04 image the base is from A02 4GB devkit but will work too B01 and 2GB devkit.

With many current development libraries already installed

I have opted to put Ubuntu budgie for the desktop and a minimalist desktop.

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with some applet for notifications and calendary with Sound HDMI/analogic options.

Flatplak gpu aceleration are enabled

Chromium up to 112.0.56.15.49 with aceleration enabled webgl working .

Firefox up to 113.0.1

L4T-scripts for automatic compile and some specific tegra stuff .

Terminal is tilix can support multi windowed integration .

By default the compiler is gcc 7 for compile the kernel and cuda 10 stuff but also have gcc9/gcc11 and clang-14 are installed

For 2GB users, if you get the overvoltage popup problem message, users have reported to me that it can be solved using a 5.3V power supply.

For some reason at higher load 5V they are not stable.

I will also raise the swap to 4GB by default since it may complain about low memory warning in some strong cases.

With any beta software, you should expect some hiccups. Hence, it is not recommended for all users to try beta versions of a distro or an app. You should only download/upgrade when a stable release is available for the best user experience.

While I have reported all the bugs/issues through the proper channels (Launchpad and GitHub issues), I don't see an update to it yet. The Ubuntu release testing Matrix channel and Telegram sees no response when people report issues/want to discuss it. ?

Hello,

Today we are announcing experimental Easel Driver support for Linux. We are supporting Debian and Ubuntu distributions on 64-bit architecture.

To install the driver, please download the package file here, and use your distribution package manager to start the installation. For most popular distributions, simply double-clicking on the package will start the installation of the driver along with required dependencies.

If you prefer to install the file using terminal, please run the following command in the folder you downloaded the package:

sudo apt install -y -f ./EaselDriver-0.3.12-x64.deb

Hi DebbieLee,

Thanks for checking out the driver! Can you please try the carving job again? There is no need to restart the computer or browser. Looks like the driver is installed and running but on our end it was marked as out of date, which has been corrected.

The Linux driver will not show up in the download list yet as it is still in the experimental phase. Currently the forum is the only way to get the Linux version.

In case of any further trouble feel free to contact me, I will gladly help you troubleshoot any issues!

Just wanted to ask. @KacperMarcisz could you compile this driver for the Raspberry Pi. there are several of us that use them due to the small size and no fans to draw dust into the system. thanks in advance for your consideration on this. and also thanks for finally doing a Linux driver.

Would just really like to see a driver for the little Pi as that is a system that is really great at controlling the X-Carve (small, no fans, plenty of computing power to send the G-code. etc. etc.) I do most of my design work on the desktop in the house and then go to the basement and login to easel and then make sure all looks good then cut.

The sign cut without any issue, short of a toolpath problem I reported via easel. At the end of the cut chrome was slow and had gobbled up memory / hard drive was thrashing and at some point after finishing the carve it disconnected from the xcontroller. When I went to close chrome it crashed.

I was going to just restart the easel driver and give it another shot but I decided to reboot. On first attempt opening easel in chrome it did not connect to the xcontroller. I turned the x-controller off and on again it connected again (no Linux reboot). Which is cool I have never had windows reconnect without rebooting

Hey Steve,

Send me the project if you can in a PM, I will do some digging. Seems like the 2GB is might not be enough for Ubuntu as the recommended minimal value got bumped to 4GB recently (see here, section on GNOME Shell).

I would recommend trying out something more lightweight, like Xubuntu or Lubuntu, instead of downgrading the version. Driver will work fine in these distributions and you will be getting updates more regularly.

I have tried running 18.04 on 2GB of memory and I have noticed the eventual slowdown due to memory restrictions & using swap partition. I am still investigating how it performs under prolonged carves.

Ive been using the release version for 10+ years on linux. I can download unzip and run it that way but was looking for some install instructions or maybe a PPA for the beta version or a snap package perhaps.

Just extract it in a separate folder from the Release and use the ProfileManager for a separate Profile. The folder will need read/write permissions for the user to do updates. A easy way is you have it in Home.

It's not working reliably for me. Usually when I reinstall it works temporarily, but gets stuck loading as soon as the screen locks. When I log back in, it's stuck in loading. Shutting down, restarting, restarting synergy, or re-selecting what computer to share from doesn't help.

My issue was because I had installed curl which in turn installed libcurl4, seems like synergy does not like libcurl4. I uninstalled libcurl4 and installed libcurl3 and synergy installed fine and is up and running.

I recently updated to Ubuntu 18.04. In my case, I copied a few essential files to Dropbox, then since I had very little actually stored on that drive, I did a full new install of Ubuntu 18.04. Wipe the drive, repartition; the whole bit.

It is running Synergy 2.0.10 and is rock solid. Never a stutter, a lost clickability or dropped the connection. I've had none of the usually reported issues. It has a Logitech gaming keyboard (no supporting software) and is my main machine, the Synergy server.

I had similar problems with a system that had been upgraded to 16.04 from 15.10. My problem was incompatibilities with Qt. I was never able to resolve it, and ultimately the only solution was a fresh install of Ubuntu.

I'm getting the "There was a problem connecting to the background service" error on 18.10 (fresh install, Synergy is the first thing I'm installing after setting up the proxy and nfs shares / kuberos etc.. for authentication to my corporate network and mounting network drives)

I can confirm that Synergy2 does not work properly when libcurl4 is installed. I removed libcurl4 and installed libcurl3 and it works fine. I currently have the inconvenient situation where Synergy is un-installled by apt when for example installing "r-base" as this will install libcurl4 and removes libcurl3 and all dependent programs with it. If one does not pay attention to the apt report before installing a package Synergy2 just disapears.

Our Synergy 2.0 packages are built against libcurl4 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, however cURL is now actually an unused legacy dependency that has been removed in v2.0.11, so this release (due out today or tomorrow) should resolve this issue

Synergy 2 is far from being ready for production and I had this dependency problem since I started using ubuntu 18.04. Guess I'll be able to stay on the 1.x branch until 2.x gets all the missing features.

We are happy to announce the beta release of the Ubuntu 24.04 image for GitHub Actions hosted runners. To start using this in your Actions workflows, update your workflow file to include runs-on: ubuntu-24.04

If you spot any issues with your workflows when using Ubuntu-24.04, or if you have feedback on the software installed on the image, please let us know by creating an issue in the runner-images repository.

As part of this update, we also needed to perform system cleanup on the vast amount of previous token generated events that were no longer relevant to providing this data point. Some data was erroneously removed but has since been restored.

I am seeing to options: - waiting until the final version is released and then start preparing this server - Now upgrading to the beta (do-release-upgrade --devel-release) and when the final release has come upgrading to that

For time constraints I would prefer the second option. I only can't find whether it will be easy to upgrade from a beta to the 'clean' final release. Is this possible in an easy way. Will it have any drawback for security or will there be any traces left of it being ever a beta release?

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