[kwlug-disc] Ubuntu 17.10

[James Kelsh]

Thanks Bob!! It will be good to see you again!!

On Jan 23, 2018 3:22 PM, "Bob Jonkman" <bjonkman at sobac.com> wrote:

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> I was an Ubuntu user (with the old Gnome2 desktop, or the Gnome
> Fallback desktop) until about 2013, switched to Mint Debian Edition
> 2013 because it promised to be a rolling release (no 6 month upgrades,
> just continuously up-to-date). This got me hooked on Mate, the
> replacement for Gnome2. But come 2014 the Mint people decided that
> Debian Edition would need upgrades after all, so I went back to Ubuntu
> LTS releases, still with the Mate desktop. I'm now transitioning to
> Debian Testing on desktops/laptops, and Debian Stable on servers, in
> the hope of getting back the equivalent of rolling releases.
>
> I used to run SuSE servers for work, but only briefly experimented
> with that for a desktop solution. The dpkg packaging system is much
> better than YAST, Rug, RedCarpet, and whatever else SuSE was using.
>
> Haven't experimented with Fedora/Red Hat except on VMs.
>
> - --Bob, who's looking forward to James's installation presentation.
>
>
> On 2018-01-23 12:02 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> > I never jumped on the Mint bandwagon for a simple reason: I want my
> > servers and my desktops to be from the same set of repositories.
> > Since Ubuntu is offered by most hosting companies (dedicated and
> > virtual), that is what I use on the desktop. Not many (if at all)
> > offer Mint for servers.
> >
> > I did move from KDE to XFCE about a year ago after I moved from
> > 14.04 to 16.04 and found it lacking a few things that I was used to
> > (working weather widget, removing options, such as notification
> > history). So I moved to XFCE after a decade with KDE. Don't miss it
> > really.
> >
> > As for interim releases, I have learned my lesson and never ever
> > bother with interim releases. Only LTS releases (12.04, 14.04,
> > 16.04) for me. And I move from one to the next after they have been
> > out for many months do I bother upgrading to them. Two or so point
> > releases. Let others be the guinea pigs. I stick with stable stuff.
> > Less drama ...
> >
> >
> >
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> - --
> Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com>          Phone: +1-519-635-9413
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