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What is the best course of action for people that have been using 12.04? Upgrade straight way? Or wait (how long?) for this LTS to smooth out any potential edge
by Dewie 13y ago
What is the best course of action for people that have been using 12.04? Upgrade straight way? Or wait (how long?) for this LTS to smooth out any potential edges? Other than the outdated packages (which seems to be a Debian thing, but that I've been able to work around by finding ppa's and building from source), I am decently happy with 12.04.
- coherentpony 13y agoIs 12.04 the previous LTS release? I think I'm using the same one. To be honest, I'm sticking with it. I still have a few more years of support so I might as well just wait until kinks (if any) are ironed out.
- justincormack 13y agoYes it is.
- newman314 13y agoWell, two good reasons (at least to me) are the newer kernel and an up-to-date version of openssh. I've upgraded 2 VMs so far from 12.04. One broke (not a big deal) and the other worked just fine. Mind you, you will have to do some fiddling to get ed25519 host and user keys working. But it's not too hard to get working.
- newman314 13y agosudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo do-release-upgrade You might have to pass the -d flag to do-release-upgrade but it was fairly straightforward.
- eikenberry 13y agoThe official advice is to wait till 14.04.1 which is scheduled for a July release.