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

[image] Ubuntu Budgie 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla) Beta 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: [image] Ubuntu Budgie 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla) Daily Build The draft release notes for UB 20.10 are here: [image] Ubuntu Budgie 20.10 Release Notes | Ubuntu Budgie Ubuntu Budgie 20.04 is a normal release that will be supported for 9 months until July 2021. Long Term Releases such as 20.04.1 provide assured stability over a longer term (3 yrs) than a standard 9…

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.

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

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

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.

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

[image] sudodus: Version 20.04.x LTS will be supported for 5 years (until April 2025) 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.

[image] sudodus: Version 20.04.x LTS will be supported for 3 years (until April 2023), while 20.10 will only be supported for 9 months, so I would recommend that you keep using 20.04.x LTS for your working system, and maybe have separate 20.10, 21.04 … systems for testing. I don’t know how this might be relevant to my post.

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

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