Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) • Hacker News Board

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

#241

Post by alainv » Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 8:05 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.

This is a virtualbox regression because the box is packaged with the LsiLogic controller: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/15317

You can downgrade VirtualBox, dropping to 5.0.16 worked for me: http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.0.16/

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

#242

Post by pavanky » Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 8:15 PM UTC

lorenzhs wrote: post #157

pavanky wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Default on debian is dash.

But bash is installed by default if I'm not terribly mistaken, and it's classified as an essential package. If you put in a bash shebang, it should work.

I have seen several people use #!/bin/sh and write bash code. This is going to break on debian machines when you do ./foo

If more people used #!/usr/bin/env bash, it wouldn't be that big of a deal.

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

#243

Post by rawfan » Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 8:17 PM UTC

amelius wrote: post #28

creshal wrote: post #21

Small warning: Ubuntu's "do you want to upgrade" popup window defaults to "yes". Had to find that out the hard way when a user hit Enter the wrong moment and was suddenly sitting in front of a bricked system.

Is upgrade failing in general or in this specific case only?

Crashed for me, too.

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

#244

Post by rawfan » Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 8:20 PM UTC

uuuuu wrote: post #47

Is an update from 14.04 painless or would you recommend reinstalling? I'd like some newer packages but don't really feel like setting up the whole system again with a reinstall.

Just failed for me on two desktop systems (one 14.04 and one 15.10).

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

#245

Post by rawfan » Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 8:22 PM UTC

dz0ny wrote: post #30

xd1936 wrote: post #5

Does anybody know what packages are going to be bundled as Snaps, and what packages will still be debs? Firefox? Libreoffice?

User apps https://paste.sh/zaodLcyn#uLrtH-WS00hxtIJTYVEgE9zS #horrible hn text editor

That's a completely different list than the (shorter) one I get.

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

#246

Post by arca_vorago » Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 8:27 PM UTC

themodelplumber wrote: post #42

arca_vorago wrote: post #9

I've been on 16.04 for a few days now, and while I did have to work through some bugs (such as sddm and lightdm fighting each other) I've been impressed so far with the improvements. Inused to hate on Ubuntu, but on my 2014 Macbook Pro, it was the one distro that "just worked", and since I mostly run debian servers, I figure Sticking to the similar ecosystem reduces mental load of switching. I still have my issues wi…

Curious what you want to remove in Windows 10. Not an evangelist, just set it up on a dual-boot refurb for a friend and thought the initial experience wasn't bad.

If I was an average user, cortana would definitely be one thing I might want to disable but probably couldn't do so easily. I'll admit I had to use my powershell script for getting rid of GWX on win7 as a base to completely get rid of Cortana without feeling like some update was going to magically re-enable her.

Also, see: https://github.com/dfkt/win10-unfuck

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

#247

Post by tsukassa » Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 8:40 PM UTC

nikolay wrote: post #219

gnoway wrote: post #162

In case anyone's looking here first, ISOs are available here: http://releases.ubuntu.com/16.04/ For some reason these are not linked yet from the 'Downloads' page at ubuntu.com.

... but not here: https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/locator/ec2/

I want this so bad.

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

#248

Post by mlvljr » Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 8:40 PM UTC

bedros wrote: post #229

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.

how's the audio jack working, I got my XPS 15 last week, and planning to install ubuntu LTS once released. I read that audio jack is tricky to get working

How come? Does Pulse do that to Dells?

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

#249

Post by mlvljr » Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 8:54 PM UTC

jkot wrote: post #46

Anyone using Kubuntu 16.04? I am thinking about moving to Fedora.

Move to XUbuntu :)

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

#250

Post by collyw » Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 8:55 PM UTC

Thaxll wrote: post #180

Rezo wrote: post #121

PSA: If you're running a HTTP/2 server like NGINX on the 14.04 LTS you'll want to upgrade to this release. Google Chrome will no longer support HTTP/2 on vanilla 14.04 after May 15th [0], even if you're using the latest official upstream NGINX packages. This is because 14.04 ships with a version of OpenSSL that does not support the ALPN extension (prior to OpenSSL 1.0.2 you're limited to NPN, now deprecated). There w…

For some softwares like Nginx you should use official repo from the Nginx team and not rely on your distro repos. http://nginx.org/en/linux_packages.html

Care to explain why? There is a huge amount of provisioning and deployment software that relies on distro repos.