Visual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful source code editor which runs on your desktop and is available for Windows, macOS and Linux. In a later article I will describe, as an alternative, installing Ubuntu Desktop with the help of Vagrant, including Visual Studio Code and Node.js. In this article the focus will be on manually installing Ubuntu Desktop.
In this article, I will share with you the steps I took, to get this working within an Oracle VirtualBox appliance. On my Windows laptop, I wanted to create an environment with Ubuntu as guest Operating System, Visual Studio Code and Node.js available within an Oracle VirtualBox appliance. You can download VDI and VMDK images of Ubuntu and Ubuntu Server for VirtualBox & VMware.For a TypeScript training, I needed an environment with Visual Studio Code and Node.js (a JavaScript runtime). We are providing you virtual images for latest version of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa and Ubuntu Server 20.04 Focal for VirtualBox and VMware. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS includes Python 3.8 as the default version but Python 2.7 is still available in the Ubuntu archive…” You can check release announcement on their mailing list. Tight integration with GRUB allows a user to revert to any system state on boot and go back in time to pave the way to a bulletproof Ubuntu Desktop. Zsys, Ubuntu’s ZFS system tool, provides automated system and user state saving. The latest version brings performance enhancements and optional encryption support.
20.04 LTS also brings support for installing an Ubuntu desktop system on top of ZFS.
20.04 LTS also features a new look-and-feel: the “Yaru” theme, available in both light and dark variants. Notable changes from 18.04 LTS include performance improvements, a new lock screen design, and support for fractional scaling under X11. Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 LTS features the latest version of the GNOME desktop environment, 3.36. The Ubuntu kernel has been updated to the 5.4 based Linux kernel, with additional support for Wireguard VPN, AUFS5, and improved support for IBM, Intel, Raspberry Pi and AMD hardware.
Codenamed “Focal Fossa”, 20.04 LTS continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. Ubuntu team announced the final version of Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa and Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa: “The Ubuntu team is very pleased to announce our eighth long-term support release, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS for Desktop, Server, Cloud and Core.
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