ubuntu 17
Anonymous
11 Nov 2017 3:23:00 UTC
Topic 210893
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Giving Ubuntu 17 a tryout. It is supposed to be officially released April '18 as an LTS release. This release, available from Ubuntu's website, seems stable with a couple of minor issues, the most obvious is in the distro's Chrome browser. It is easily fixed with a "refresh". Look and feel is different but so far I like what I am seeing. Software updates will probably fix the Chome browser issue along with others I have not seen.
Because this install is on a laptop I am not crunching so I cannot comment on driver support.
Ubuntu 18.04 will be the LTS
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Ubuntu 18.04 will be the LTS release. If previous releases are anything to go by it will be very similar to 17.10 which i guess you are running. Gnome and GDM being the big changes, unity and lightdm being retired which i'm not sad to see go.
18.04 ReleaseSchedule
On your laptop, you may want
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On your laptop, you may want to run BOINC on two cores only and reduce usage to 25% or so. This should keep your fans at a low speed.
I had run ubu 17 for about
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I had run ubu 17 for about two weeks and liked what I saw but it had some issues with a couple of browsers I use so I fell back to 16. I have however always thought (and still do) that the Ubuntu team does an outstanding job.
I don't like 17.10. I'd
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I don't like 17.10. I'd rather not have to scroll up each time I come back to the PC, even a dedicated BOINC machine. Plus Teamviewer doesn't work with 17.10. 17.04 was ok.