[kwlug-disc] Ubuntu 18.04

[CrankyOldBugger]

And, depending on your router, doing the DHCP route as Khalid mentioned
makes it convenient to set up Port Forwarding.

On 29 March 2018 at 15:08, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:

> That is what I do: configure the router to give the same IP address to
> certain devices, while still using DHCP on them. Makes configuration much
> easier, and defaults work on all these devices (DHCP), but effectively with
> static IP.
>
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 2:05 PM, Raymond Chen <raymondchen625 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> That's one of the things I always get confused of Debian/Ubuntu. I
>> remember whenever I reinstalled a new Raspbian on my Pi, I had to learn a
>> new way to configure a static IP address. It's not hard but why they keep
>> changing it? So at a point I started to use dynamic IP address and changed
>> my router settings instead.
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 1:31 PM, Chamunks <chamunks at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Netplan... okay more things I need to re-learn.  Huzzah!  I already am
>>> annoyed that I have to learn the IP command instead of if{up/down/whatever}
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 1:02 PM L.D. Paniak <
>>> ldpaniak at fourpisolutions.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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>
>>>> 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> 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> 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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