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by dustinkirkland 10y ago
Yeah, so see above... This one is 100% my fault. I wrote Byobu as well as purge-old-kernels to solve a really annoying problem. And I jammed purge-old-kernels into Byobu because Byobu is always installed every I have Ubuntu, and I always
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by dustinkirkland 10y ago
Ah yes, good catch. We are working on making the "System Restart Required" message more "Livepatch" aware. Good suggestion! We'll try to get an update out to 14.04/16.04 LTS and into 18.04 LTS.
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by dustinkirkland 10y ago
Everything @rlpb just said here is spot on ;-) Definitive +1.
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by dustinkirkland 10y ago
2 years support :-) That would be really nice for us (Canonical). But we just announced ESM (Extended Security Maintenance) for Ubuntu 12.04, which is just about to EOL after 5 years of support. There are still over 10 million Ubuntu 12.
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by dustinkirkland 10y ago
Right, but the "new command" is "snap install ..." ;-)
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by dustinkirkland 10y ago
Ah this is a good idea, and one we're very specifically trying to solve. The way you're going to do this in Ubuntu will be with the "snap" packaging manager! You can already use "snap install ..." to install
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by dustinkirkland 10y ago
Interesting... So I most of my time in a terminal too. As a rule, I always (a) run gnome-terminal in full screen, (b) always run byobu in the terminal, and then (c) always use byobu/tmux to split the screen up into a bunch of shells
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by dustinkirkland 10y ago
This is a nice idea, actually. I'll have to see how to work this out with our partner ecosystem. In the meantime, perhaps you'll find the list of hardware certified to work with Ubuntu useful: https://certification.ubu
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by dustinkirkland 10y ago
Linux Mint is also "Ubuntu without Security". That's right -- Linux Mint does not install Ubuntu's security updates, nor supply their own. Stated another way: 100% of Linux Mint machines in the world are either: (a) alr
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by dustinkirkland 10y ago
This will get fixed. Mark my words ;-)
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by dustinkirkland 10y ago
Unfortunately, that's not enough. There are many corner cases where kernel packages hang around much longer than they should, for odd reasons.
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by dustinkirkland 10y ago
So I'm the author of both Byobu and purge-old-kernels. It's in Debian, because I help push it there after I push it to Ubuntu. It's completely wrong that purge-old-kernels is in Byobu, rather than in the kernel or directly
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by dustinkirkland 10y ago
:-) Thanks!
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by dustinkirkland 10y ago
Ubuntu is absolutely doing something wrong here and we'll get that fixed. Thanks!
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by dustinkirkland 10y ago
Classy!
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by dustinkirkland 10y ago
It is a bad place for it. But it's there because I wrote both of them, and Byobu is always everywhere I want it to be, and I generally always want purge-old-kernels there too. But yes, you're very right. It needs to be moved o
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by dustinkirkland 10y ago
I'm really sorry that you feel that way. I'm enthralled with the discussion, reading every single response :-) Ubuntu is among the world's largest community driven open source projects, and we're delighted to have feedba
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Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
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How the Telecommunications Act of 1996 Brought Us Donald Trump(medium.com)
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by dustinkirkland 10y ago
Try: $ apt install wallstreet $ wallstreet I created that for Ubuntu, as a follow-on to: $ apt install hollywood $ hollywood Purely for fun. Try it!
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Howto: GPUs and Kubernetes for Deep Learning(medium.com)
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by dustinkirkland 10y ago
There are two ways this has played out over the last 13 years. a) Canonical develops an open source solution to a real problem but RH and others choose not to contribute or adopt (e.g. bzr, Launchpad, upstart, Mir, Unity, LXD, Juju, Snaps,
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by dustinkirkland 10y ago
How is it that Canonical is accused of NIH, but literally NO ONE ELSE IS?
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by dustinkirkland 10y ago
Competition between every one of those projects have made each of them better.
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by dustinkirkland 10y ago
Omg! How dare an open source project, led by Canonical, have a "brought to you by Canonical" feeling! That's just awful. Did you know that Canonical also doesn't contribute upstream, and instead uses that time to club
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by dustinkirkland 10y ago
After a complex set of steps to setup ipv6 in my [VPC, Router, Gateway, Security Groups, and others that I'm forgetting], I was able to launch 2 instances and get both ipv4 and ipv6 addresses. As OddBloke notes, I did have to 'su
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by dustinkirkland 10y ago
PM @ Canonical, I'm responsible for the Ubuntu Operating System. Great thread! Your responses have taught me quite a bit about our industry! My background: * I earned a B.S. from Texas A&M University in Computer Engineering and M
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by dustinkirkland 10y ago
Interesting... Frankly, I love the tmux default, to sharing the window, while also supporting the concept of "sessions". The shared view makes paired programming with a colleague across the world, while on the phone or a video
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by dustinkirkland 10y ago
In Byobu, you simply need to create a new session. Ctrl-Alt-F2. Then Alt-Up/Alt-Down to move among sessions. Each user can have their own session easily like this! Shift-F1 for the hotkeys, if you need a reminder ;-)
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by dustinkirkland 10y ago
On the flip side, when there is a kernel vulnerability, there's only 1 kernel to update! If you're running the Canonical Livepatch Service, for instance, critical security vulnerabilities are patch in real time, without reboot, a

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