{"id":98044,"date":"2025-10-14T09:25:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T09:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2025\/10\/14\/rustier-wayland-ier-but-flatpak-broke-the-register\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T09:27:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T09:27:22","slug":"rustier-wayland-ier-but-flatpak-broke-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2025\/10\/14\/rustier-wayland-ier-but-flatpak-broke-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"Rustier, Wayland-ier, but Flatpak broke \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The newest interim launch of Ubuntu is right here, showcasing some vital modifications. This is not a long-term launch, but a lot of its variations might be in 26.04 subsequent 12 months.<\/p>\n

On the finish of final week, Canonical released Ubuntu 25.10 “Questing Quokka,”<\/a> together with 9 of the ten official flavors<\/a>. The release notes<\/a> cowl what’s new.<\/p>\n

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Questing has a wallaby-themed wallpaper, and the complete set up has 12 snap packages<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

A reasonably vital bug was found after the Quokka was launched: Flatpak is broken<\/a> attributable to a bug in how Ubuntu’s AppArmor<\/a> safety module handles the fusermount3<\/code> command<\/a>. There’s a workaround<\/a> and a repair is in progress. The Ubuntu desktop would not embody Flatpak as customary and neither do any of the flavors<\/a>, however many customers do desire Flatpak to Canonical’s personal Snap format. A lot in order that Flatpak is the default in a number of downstream Ubuntu-based distros, notably Linux Mint but additionally together with Elementary OS, Zorin OS, and Anduin OS<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ubuntu and its upstream Debian each use AppArmor, whereas most distros from the Purple Hat household use SELinux<\/a> as a substitute. Notably, the not too long ago launched openSUSE Leap 16<\/a> switched from AppArmor to SELinux, as we reported once we looked at the release candidate<\/a> in August.<\/p>\n

The lacking taste is Ubuntu Unity, of which there will not be a Questing model. On the remix’s Telegram channel<\/a>, admin Maik Adamietz<\/a> stated:<\/p>\n

The Register<\/em> has already coated a lot of what is new in model 25.10. As a substitute of the GNU coreutils<\/code>, it has new implementations in Rust<\/a>, together with the sudo<\/code> utility<\/a>. “Questing” features a preview model of the TPM-chip backed Full Disk Encryption system<\/a>, which Canonical has been engaged on for a few years.<\/p>\n

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The Questing Budgie is just a little smaller and cleaner \u2013 simply 9 snaps, for example. Who’s a fairly boy then?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The default graphical desktop version makes use of GNOME 49 with some new apps, as we described when it reached beta<\/a>. As we reported earlier in the development cycle<\/a>, solely GNOME on Wayland is included. There is no X11 session. This additionally applies to Kubuntu 25.10<\/a>, which comes with KDE Plasma 6.4 and is equally Wayland-centric.<\/p>\n

This suggests a couple of vital particulars that we really feel we should always spell out. Firstly, each Ubuntu 25.10 and Kubuntu 25.10 do set up XWayland by default, so X11 apps work seamlessly. Secondly, this variation would not apply to the opposite official flavors with different desktops, which nonetheless use X.org. This contains Ubuntu Budgie 25.10<\/a>, or “Questing Budgie” as we like to consider it \u2013 though that taste crew is aiming to be Wayland-only for model 26.04. In flip, the truth that the opposite desktops nonetheless use X11 signifies that all of the X.org packages are nonetheless within the Ubuntu repositories, so you’ll be able to set up GNOME-on-X11 or Plasma-on-X11 classes if you’d like or want them.<\/p>\n

On different platforms, there are deeper modifications. The Raspberry Pi version of Ubuntu has a brand new A\/B boot mechanism, as described by Dave Jones, Canonical’s boffin\u00a0for all issues Pi, in a blog post back in July<\/a>. It additionally defaults to doing a minimal set up. On different Arm64 {hardware}, the brand new common ISO makes use of a new UEFI boot stub<\/a>, which known as stubble<\/a> and allows Safe Boot help on some {hardware}, reminiscent of some laptops with Qualcomm Snapdragon SoC.<\/p>\n

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