[ale] UBuntu 17.10 EOL today

[DJ-Pfulio]

I have not migrated any systems to 18.04 nor brought up any 18.04
machines for production use.

If I absolutely had to install a fresh Ubuntu server today, it would 16.04.

But different people have different requirements from a release.

I am looking forward to 18.04.1, which should be released in a few
weeks. I'll bring up a few test servers.

Last week, I played with Lubuntu.  Installed a full, new, install and
alternate minimal Lubuntu .iso to compare the installation packages and
time-to-install.

My findings are for LVM and "minimal install" options into a VM on an
empty, non-busy, Core i7 VM host.

* alternate ISO install for a minimal install took 46 minutes. This is
the old text installer.
* New GUI installer, took 7:55 (under 8 minutes). This is the fresh,
new, installer debuted with 18.04.
* The total installed packages installed as shown by apt-mark for both
installs was very close, within 5.
* The total storage used by each install was within 100MB.
* No difference in performance, post-install was noticed.
* There is a Qt GUI option from the DE-change menu pre-login.  Selecting
it isn't ready.  In the fall Lubuntu, they are moving from GTK to Qt
libraries.  I think it was a mistake to include that menu option in 18.04.

18.04.1 installer is supposed to have support for non-default
installations with RAID, LVM, bonded networks, etc. I am hopeful.


On 07/19/2018 11:08 AM, Byron Jeff wrote:
> This is the reason I only run LTS versions. It just feels like the non LTS
> versions are like vaporware. Wait a year, and everything disappears.
> 
> Any comments on the stability of 18.04. I haven't upgraded any of my
> machines from 16.04 yet. Is it time?
> 
> BAJ
> 
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 10:08:57AM -0400, DJ-Pfulio via Ale wrote:
>> If you are running any version of Ubuntu 17.10, today is the last day to
>> get patches.
>> https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/07/ubuntu-17-10-end-of-life
>>
>> At this point, normal people should be running either 16.04.x or 18.04.
>> People with servers might still have some 14.04.x machines for another 6
>> months or so before support ends.
>>
>> If you aren't running 16.04.x or 18.04, time to move.