[kwlug-disc] Ubuntu 18.04

L.D. Paniak ldpaniak at fourpisolutions.com
Thu Mar 29 13:01:16 EDT 2018


I have 18.04 running on a research server for a month now.
No problems once you get over the new network configuration stack: netplan
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Netplan

Someone with experience should give a talk on this...

On 03/29/2018 12:41 PM, Chamunks wrote:
> I find that Ubuntu can be edgy enough to keep you using latest tech
> which is nice to an extent but at the same time, it can also be a bit
> rocky right after an upgrade.  Granted CI/CD strategies being deployed
> and adopted everywhere has definitely helped reduce the drama created
> by living on the edge.
>
> @Khalid I did notice that the .x releases of LTS were about when it
> was good to jump on board too.  Although there have been the odd years
> I think 14.04 that they didn't have a .x release but I don't recall
> exactly.
>
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 12:35 PM Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com
> <mailto:kb at 2bits.com>> wrote:
>
>     Same for me.
>
>     I don't bother trying it out until a .1 or .2 is released.
>
>     On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 12:27 PM, Chamunks <chamunks at gmail.com
>     <mailto:chamunks at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         I generally tend to avoid the latest Ubuntu releases for a
>         good solid 2 months after they drop publicly.  How do you find
>         18.04 now?  
>
>         On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 9:41 AM CrankyOldBugger
>         <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com <mailto:crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>>
>         wrote:
>
>             If anyone's interested..  I've been running the Bionic
>             Beaver in beta for over a week now (just for a short while
>             in a VM each day, not as my primary machine), and so far I
>             like what I'm seeing.  Seems to be much happier than 17.10.
>
>             But if you decide to install 18.04, be sure to grab GNOME
>             Tweaks as soon as you can so you can change the dock to
>             dash-to-dock and move it to the bottom of the screen.  The
>             way they have it set up on the left is just confusing.
>
>             I believe that the actual release date is in the last week
>             of April.
>
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