What's new in Ubuntu MATE 23.04 (Lunar Lobster)
May 8, 2023
- MATE Desktop:
- Both MATE Desktop and Ayatana Indicators have seen some version bumps that fix an assortment of minor bugs
- AI Generated wallpapers (yet again!):
- My friend Simon Butcher is Head of Research Platforms at Queen Mary University of London managing the Apocrita HPC cluster service. Once again, Simon has created **some stunning **AI-generated ** for Ubuntu MATE using bleeding edge diffusion models** The samples below are 1920x1080 but the versions included in Ubuntu MATE 23.04 are 3840x2160.
- Flatpak:
- Flatpak is no longer installed by default, but can still be installed should you want to use it.
- PipeWire:
- As a podcaster and streamer I’m delighted to have PipeWire installed by default since Ubuntu MATE 22.10. The Ubuntu MATE meta packages have been updated to correctly install the revised pipewire packages in Ubuntu. Special thanks to Erich Eickmeyer, from the Ubuntu Studio project, for his work on this.
- Major Applications:
- Accompanying MATE Desktop 1.26.1 and Linux 6.20 are Firefox 111 , Celluloid 0.20 , Evolution 3.48 , LibreOffice 7.5.2