Groovy Gorilla’s Greatest Features
Ubuntu 20.10 with GNOME 3.38 & Raspberry Pi 4 support
Six months after the successful release of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS another animal-themed alliteration steers the way of the current iteration of this hugely popular operating system: Groovy Gorilla is the codename of Ubuntu 20.10, released October 22nd, 2020.
The most important changes are listed below. You can find the Ubuntu 20.10 release notes here.
GNOME 3.38
This version upgrade has been anticipated by many GNOME users. Version 3.38 contains many performance optimizations and bugfixes and should lead to a even smoother Linux desktop experience.
Ubiquity
The Ubiquity installer application has integrated the Microsoft Active Directory functionality.
OpenZFS
While still experimental, the OpenZFS file-system is now available when installing Ubuntu 20.10.
Linux 5.8 Kernel
The Kernel used in Ubuntu 20.10 has been upgraded to version 5.8 which enables USB 4 support and other interesting features.
Mesa 20.2
Ubuntu users who like to play video games will probably benefit from more and better supported hardware, especially AMD-based graphics cards.
