Ubuntu 14.04 (Tasty Tahr)
Typing this in Chromium running under the final beta of Ubuntu 14.04 (Tasty Tahr) in a WMWare virtual machine on my iMac. This VM used to be 12.04. Had to upgrade to 12.10, then 13.10, then 14.04. Seems stable enough. Not much different looking from the 13.10 I run on my laptop. There doesn't seem to be an upgrade path yet from 12.04 server version, but I'll wait until 12.04.1 to upgrade my production servers.
The link below says that "do-release-upgrade -d
" will work, and it did work from the desktop version of 13.10, but I didn't see any upgrade choices in 12.04 server. And I did "apt-get update
" and "apt-get dist-upgrade
" first.
Ubuntu 14.04 doesn't
Ubuntu 14.04 doesn't look much different than 13.10. Still has Unity by default, which may be the reason for slowness on older hardware. Runs fine under VMWare on my 2-year-old iMac, but it's a fast machine.
update
I think the original Ubuntu I installed was 10.01 or something. The update number I don't remember at all, maybe 13... who knows, but I resisted the temptation to update for a long time. I can't find it documented anywhere here.
Sure hope this old box will hang in there for a while longer. I'm snowed in at present. sigh
See /etc/issue
The file /etc/issue will show you the version you're running. From a shell on this web server:
$ cat /etc/issue Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS \n \l
About to give up on ubuntu
I ran "Puppy" linux for a number of years and it was fast, with few problems. It was just too limited and the word processor and other programs primitive. I tried out a number of other operating systems and settled on Ubuntu a few years ago. Eventually, the push to upgrade was too much and I reluctantly allowed it. Boy, was I sorry.
The upgrade screwed up a number of things, change things I didn't want changed, and generally ran slower. Just as we saw with "windows," more and more things were decided FOR me, and I don't have the geek skills to get around it.
I recently bought a refurb. box with 160 gigs of HD, so did a dual boot of the windows 7 crap that came with it (I have ONE program I still like to use that won't run on anything but windows, of course), and tried a variation of the "Mint" linux. Boy, oh boy do I hate that one.
Some hardware problems mean the box is going into the shop this week, and I'm back to the old one with Ubuntu. Sort of between a rock and a hard place with this, naturally. If I install the old version of Ubuntu I started with, it's automatically out of date and might be vulnerable to who knows what.
So far, I've not seen a new linux OS that's worth a damn... Maybe the Ubuntu 14.04 would be ok... I guess I can try it. Any ideas?
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