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EOAN ERMINE

BASE SPEC: DUAL-CORE 64-BIT CPU, 2GB RAM, 20GB HDD

Ubuntu 19.10

64-bit

Golly, a new Ubuntu release, and the last one before the LTS release in April 2020. Like all the other development (non-LTS) versions, this ‘Eoan Ermine’ release brings a newer kernel (5.3) and drivers, new applications and new desktop tweaks.

The about-turn back to the Gnome desktop in Ubuntu 18.04 came with some teething problems; namely, performance was poor and many people ran into a nasty memory leak.

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