Ubuntu 16.04 LTS to Ship Without Python 2, Windows Printers Detection Affected | Linux Today

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS to Ship Without Python 2, Windows Printers Detection Affected

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Marius Nestor
Mar 6, 2016

Python 2 is one of the most discussed things these days among OS vendors, and most of them want to banish the old technology from their upcoming operating systems, but because not everyone is on par with the latest trends, removing the Python 2 packages from the default install is not easy to do than to state.

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Marius Nestor

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