Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) • Hacker News Board

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

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Post by satysin » Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 1:57 PM UTC

edent wrote: post #75

michaelmior wrote: post #66

For anyone like myself who isn't a big fan of the Unity interface, check out Ubuntu MATE[0]. The MATE desktop environment is very similar to pre-Unity Ubuntu. It seems like the final 16.04 release hasn't landed yet but I'm sure it will later today. Ubuntu MATE is also one of the derivative distros that has been granted LTS status by Canonical. [0] https://ubuntu-mate.org/

I'll second that. Mate is amazing. I can also recommend Cinnamon.

I would love to see an "official" Cinnamon build in the way we have Xubuntu, etc.

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

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Post by matt4077 » Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 1:57 PM UTC

therealmarv wrote: post #60

If somebody needs a Vagrantfile for testing: https://gist.github.com/therealmarv/555f7efc1c55ffa288bca091... but it seems even Ubuntus Server are not speedy today (Atlas server are also slow) (Update) it seems I'm getting an error with it :/ The guest machine entered an invalid state while waiting for it to boot. Valid states are 'starting, running'. The machine is in the 'gurumeditation' state. Please verify everyth…

Someone else in this thread posted something rather nonsensical about switching to Commodore 64. I was just about to make a guru meditation joke when I saw that someone apparently beat me to it.

I'm running 16.04 with the Vagrant/Virtualbox image from atlas. I've tried getting it to work in the google cloud but had no luck there so far (it's possibly just the ssh key injection that failed, haven't had time to investigate).

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

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Post by noisy_boy » Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 1:58 PM UTC

> Online searches in the dash are now disabled by default [1]

A welcome and saner default. I'm thinking of moving back to Ubuntu from LinuxMint (I was thinking of Arch as well but not too confident of being on the bleeding edge).

[1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/ReleaseNotes

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 1:59 PM UTC

zakk wrote: post #87

fideloper wrote: post #6

Vagrant box for 16.04: https://atlas.hashicorp.com/ubuntu/boxes/xenial64

Does it work for you? For me VirtualBox gets stuck into the 'gurumeditation' state when booting.

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Re: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

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Post by aorth » Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 2:01 PM UTC

jontro wrote: post #38

Great! Finally php7 support out of the box

Indeed! And the release notes linked to a good resource on configuration changes requires for Nginx + PHP7.0:

http://dark-net.net/?p=125

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 2:01 PM UTC

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Re: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

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Post by ausjke » Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 2:03 PM UTC

Hope DigitalOcean and Linode will support 16.04 quickly. Can't wait.

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

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Post by abrowne » Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 2:04 PM UTC

gravypod wrote: post #88

abrowne wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you on 15.10 or 14.04 LTS? For the latter, I think not until 16.04.1 is released. Otherwise, probably soon.

I'm on xubuntu 15.10.

You can always do `sudo do-release-upgrade -d` (for development version), but it should work in the next 24 hours.

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

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Post by Thaxll » Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 2:05 PM UTC

kraftman wrote: post #29

Been using 16.04 on my XPS 13 for a week or so now, it finally supports nearly everything (bluetooth is a couple of extra commands) out of the box, and I've not had any issues so far.

Is it a XPS 2016?

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

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Post by neoeldex » Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 2:08 PM UTC

simplicio wrote: post #56

Say what you will about Canonical, their whimsical naming scheme has helped expand my vocabulary of both obscure African mammals and little-used adjectives.

What is going to happen when they land at Z? The end of Ubuntu as we know it? :P