Ubuntu Budgie 20.10 beta

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Ubuntu 20.10 beta is available, I thought UB 20.10 beta would appear on the same date, but I can only find dailies.

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Remember - beta is just a point in time (i.e. reference)- so the beta is the same as the daily from yesterday and probably today.

Canonical will then allow the dailies to continue - these are released here:

The draft release notes for UB 20.10 are here:

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Thanks. I had assumed that for it to be issued as a beta it had to have achieved certain milestones or passed certain tests.

I know that dailies are not supposed to be used on live systems, but in recent years I have installed the beta without problems. Only on a (well backed-up) home computer so not too demanding.

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…or maybe not. I get a “No EFE partition…” error whatever that is, I’ve never seen it before.

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That is covered in the known issues section of the release notes.

Please use the live session to install.

When the installation fails report it to launchpad

I.e.

ubuntu-bug ubiquity
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Whoops, I shouldn’t have made my usual assumption that the release notes would be irrelevant and/or too technical for me.

I still get the error when I attempt to install from the live session: “Missing EFE boot partition…” and then “Carry on at your own risk”. No thanks! Installation is scary enough without problems with the installer.

I have gone back to Ubuntu 20.04. I haven’t tried Ubuntu 20.10, so I don’t know whether this is a general Ubuntu 20.10 problem or a UB 20.10 problem.

I’d prefer not to report a bug as my understanding of the problem is so poor.

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I imagine that I could install Ubuntu Budgie 20.04, then when 20.10 is live upgrade to that without encountering that Ubuquity bug.

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
do-release-upgrade

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Thats for the standard GNOME Shell edition. UB and the other flavours have signed up for the 3 yr support cycle.

We would only consider a 5yr period if we had some serious corporate sponsorship that would fund full time developers who could look after the distro for that length of time.

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I don’t know how this might be relevant to my post.

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@fossfreedom I see one correction in first part of release notes. Is it deliberate?

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thanks - fixed and updated !

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For someone who is installing a Beta on his live system :slight_smile: ?

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I posted earlier that I was reluctant to post a bug as my understanding of the problem was poor. Since then I have found Launchpad>Questions and posted a question there, I got good advice - a link to an existing bug on Launchpad>Bugs where I could just add a comment about my experience. It seems that it is a recognised bug.

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