[LUAU] Ubuntu and updates
Jeff Mings
jeffm at lava.net
Wed Sep 5 13:43:39 PDT 2012
FYI - if you like the look of 10.1, you can use 10.04, which is one of
the LTS releases. The LTS releases have very long support lives - thru
April 2013 for desktop and April 2015 for the server version of 10.04.
Ubuntu 12.04 is an LTS release, which is why it's such a big deal.
-Jeff
On 09/05/2012 10:35 AM, J.K.Roby wrote:
> I'm running Ubuntu 10.1 and the updates stopped long ago.The upside is
> the install functions perfectly.
> I very much like the clean desktop as opposed to the new 12.04 and am
> looking at this MATE overlay.
> Annoying that Ubuntu updates so frequently,and I read something that
> the Debian folks also give Shuttleworth grief for that. I was offered
> an update to 11.x ages ago but can't get anything better than a
> crippled 3G connect out here in the woods.Seems a complete backup up
> and rebuild is all that is available. I get my ISOs from a friends
> DSL. Aloha LUAU people.
>
> On 09/05/2012 10:25 AM, Jeff Mings wrote:
>> Ubuntu/HP? You mean an HP product with Ubuntu? Which Ubuntu version
>> number and desktop would that be?
>>
>> I'm guessing that Synaptic, the GUI DEB package manager,
>> disappeared. If all else fails, aptitude is the best console /
>> terminal-based package manager I've seen. You can do _everything_
>> from that, with a menu-driven interface that doesn't take a lot of
>> time to get used to. I really wish the RPM/YUM package family under
>> Redhat / CentOS had something as excellent as aptitude.
>>
>> Good Luck,
>> -Jeff
>>
>> On 09/05/2012 10:17 AM, Al Plant wrote:
>>>
>>> Aloha,
>>>
>>> Seeing the post from Jeff reminded me to ask this.
>>>
>>> I have a net book with Ubuntu/HP on it. (All of the rest of my boxes
>>> run FreeBSD) And the last time the updates ran part of the menu
>>> vanished to an auto select feature.
>>>
>>> Also I no longer have any flash that works for this unit either.
>>> Tried to update but doesnt finish install.
>>>
>>> Does any one have a suggestion to any link to a how to make things
>>> install on the version of Ubuntu that is on the machine? Or do I
>>> have to upgrade the version?
>>>
>>> Mahalo...
>>>
>>> ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740
>>> + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org +
>>> + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* +
>>> < email: noc at hdk5.net >
>>> "All that's really worth doing is what we do for others."- Lewis Carrol
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