Subj : Contemplations?
To   : Vince Coen
From : Jeff Smith
Date : Sun Sep 23 2018 03:43 pm

Hello Vince,

>> So, I  have resisted upgrading Ubuntu Linux on the BBBS machine which
>> currently runs Ubuntu 16.10. 

> Test one's that have a LTS policy and releases.

That was my thought also. Whatever my choice it would a Linux flavor with
extended support.

>The other in the main have a tendancy of upgrading every 6 - months which is a
>right royal pain to deal with as 9 times out of 10 upgrades do not work out as
>planned (the disto people or users). 

True... And then they sometimes offer changes (Improvements?) that one sees as
downgrade.  

> Ubuntu is one but CentOS may be another and no doubt there are others.
> The LTS distros are supported for a five year cycle with a upgrade facility
> for the next version of the LTS so should work well BUT do not upgrade for 
> a few months after release - let other work the bugs out.

Right now I am either looking at staying with (Actually upgrading to the
current LTS version of Ubuntu) or installing CentOS on a spare PC of similar
hardware and testing it prior to running/restoring BBBS onto t he machine.

At the moment I use Linux Mint on the PC that I do my daily desktop PC'ing.


Jeff

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