Focal Fossa
Ubuntu 20.04(LTS)
Among the lot of Linux distribution systems UBUNTU is the most popular desktop Linux based os.
The latest Ubuntu operating system is Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa, released on 23 rd April 2020.
This is a Long term support release — the type of release that Canonical only publishes every two years
It will support continues for the next five years .
ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle
And Also Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is now certified for the Raspberry Pi!
New features in Focal Fossa
1)Ubuntu 20.04 provides three default theme variants
in ubuntu 19.10 only we can see the default Yaru theme with dark mode but ubuntu 20.04(LTS) provide light, standard and dark themes too.\
2)Aubergine as the second accent color
3)Do not disturb button to utilize the notifications
4)snaps before apts ,
in the early versions of ubuntu if we want to install new package only apt command suggested but now snap suggests before the apt
How the htop (interactive process viewer )works in ubuntu 20.04LTS ?
5)Faster install ubuntu 20.04 is with new compression algorithms then it take less time to install Focal fossa. t
hrough the systemd-analyze command you can easily find the time spent in the kernel before userspace has been reached,
6)new lookup lock screen + screen view
Linux Kernel 5.4
Ubuntu 20.04 features the latest kenal 5.4 This means that you get native ExFAT support and all the other performance improvements and new hardware supports that come with it.
using the uname -a command or neofetch command you can easily see the kernal version
Kernel 5.4 will now bring native exFAT support to Linux.
FAT filesystem does not allow transferring files bigger than 4GB. To overcome this limit, Microsoft created exFAT filesystem. With this, you could now format a USB drive in exFAT and transfer bigger files
7 . WireGuard VPN specially backported
wire guard is the fast,secure and the modern security tunnel for the linux destributions
The biggest news of all is that Linux now has the popular open-source Virtual Private Network VPN WireGuard baked in. WireGuard is a radical new approach to VPNs. With its minimal codebase — about 4,000 lines of code — it’s much easier to debug and secure than its rivals such as OpenVPN with its over 100,000 lines
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