[ale] UBuntu 17.10 EOL today

[DJ-Pfulio]

For Ubuntu 18.04, they changed installers, so many things that have been
supported for a long time didn't make it into the 18.04.0 release.

But you are comparing apples and oranges.
Lubuntu runs well on 512MB of RAM and 1 CPU.  I've used it on Pentium4 CPUs and
Core i7 ... the GUI was just as fast on both.

I looked at only the Lubuntu installation, which is basically a team of 2-3
people.  More install choices aren't good when you are trying to make a solution
easy for grandma to install on her 15+ yr old  WinXP computer.  That's where
Lubuntu fits.

Or it flies if you have a modern box.



On 07/19/2018 01:54 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-07-19 at 13:09 -0400, DJ-Pfulio via Ale wrote:
>> <snip>
>> 18.04.1 installer is supposed to have support for non-default
>> installations with RAID, LVM, bonded networks, etc. I am hopeful.
>>
>> <snip>
> 
> Not to poke too hard :-) but the CentOS installer has supported RAID, LVM,
> bonded networks in both gui (except bonded which is only since RHEL6) since
> RHEL4 - 15 years ago. The gui installer from CentOS 6 was rather outstanding.
> The new 7 version is "cleaner" and hides the fancy, large enterprise stuff from
> the basic install process. It's there, but not really obvious. Automatic
> installs with scripted kickstart will do literally anything. The text install
> was minimal in CentOS6 and is basically crap in 7. Only useful for a default,
> minimal installation.
> 
> The minimal install for 7.5 is around 3GB (maybe. Don't really look since the
> minimum VM is 100G) and doesn't include vim but does include vi. It would be not
> trivial to shrink that install down to 100MB. There's so many tools I use I have
> a post install package of around 20-30 additional packages to get things to the
> "this is how I like it" level. A basic, full X GUI is around 30GB (gnome
> interface). I set up a test VM with a gui with only 2GB RAM and it's mostly
> usable. Even <choke><cough>matlab gui<gag> will run<stabs eyes with a fork>.
>