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Re: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver Released

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Post by augustl »

thibran wrote: post #8
augustl wrote: post #2

I plan to run LTS on my laptop from now on, so that I get a stable desktop environment. I used to be a sucker for running the latest and greatest, but I guess I'm too old for that now. I wonder how my applications will fare. I would like to have the latest version of Firefox, emacs, git, and so on. It's the desktop environment and OS itself I want to be as stable as possible. I'd also like to get the most recent kern…

To get the latest version of an app you can use snap-packages. E.g. to always get automatically the newest version of LibreOffice: sudo snap install libreoffice Don't forget to remove the preinstalled – and soon outdated – .deb-package version of LibreOffice :)

Oh, that's really cool! I had no idea this existed. Thanks a lot!

Re: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver Released

#12

Post by oblio »

beojan wrote: post #5
augustl wrote: post #2

I plan to run LTS on my laptop from now on, so that I get a stable desktop environment. I used to be a sucker for running the latest and greatest, but I guess I'm too old for that now. I wonder how my applications will fare. I would like to have the latest version of Firefox, emacs, git, and so on. It's the desktop environment and OS itself I want to be as stable as possible. I'd also like to get the most recent kern…

I would avoid running LTS unless you really need the stability. Otherwise, having the latest applications (and utilities like git) is going to be difficult.

What does the latest git provide, that is actually noteworthy or a game changer? Honest question.

Re: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver Released

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Post by roryisok »

thibran wrote: post #8
augustl wrote: post #2

I plan to run LTS on my laptop from now on, so that I get a stable desktop environment. I used to be a sucker for running the latest and greatest, but I guess I'm too old for that now. I wonder how my applications will fare. I would like to have the latest version of Firefox, emacs, git, and so on. It's the desktop environment and OS itself I want to be as stable as possible. I'd also like to get the most recent kern…

To get the latest version of an app you can use snap-packages. E.g. to always get automatically the newest version of LibreOffice: sudo snap install libreoffice Don't forget to remove the preinstalled – and soon outdated – .deb-package version of LibreOffice :)

Wait... Do Linux apps (Firefox etc) not self update like Windows and MacOS?

Re: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver Released

#16

Post by pmontra »

beojan wrote: post #5
augustl wrote: post #2

I plan to run LTS on my laptop from now on, so that I get a stable desktop environment. I used to be a sucker for running the latest and greatest, but I guess I'm too old for that now. I wonder how my applications will fare. I would like to have the latest version of Firefox, emacs, git, and so on. It's the desktop environment and OS itself I want to be as stable as possible. I'd also like to get the most recent kern…

I would avoid running LTS unless you really need the stability. Otherwise, having the latest applications (and utilities like git) is going to be difficult.

I'm on 16.04 and I have no problems with that. I use the repositories of the developers, so I get the latest versions. I use Canonical's repositories for the OS and the software I don't really care much about. I had no problems with this approach (LibreOffice, PostgreSQL, etc). I occasionally run some software in a docker container to get the latest version, or to run multiple versions of the same server application (example: I've got two Redis for two different projects). Asdf [1] can manage multiple PostgreSQL versions (and several languages).

The real advantage of staying on a LTS has been no big updates and no changes in the GUI. I'm on Gnome Flashback which I tweaked to be as closed as possible to Gnome 2. It seems that Gnome Shell eventually got enough extensions to also make it look like Gnome 2. I'll give it a try again after those memory leaks will go away. I can probably stick to 16.04 for another year before developers start skipping it in their builds.

Edit: I checked and I have git 2.17.0, which is the latest version. I keep it up to date with ppa.launchpad.net/git-core/ppa/ubuntu

[1] https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf

Re: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver Released

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Post by adamtulinius »

roryisok wrote: post #15
thibran wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To get the latest version of an app you can use snap-packages. E.g. to always get automatically the newest version of LibreOffice: sudo snap install libreoffice Don't forget to remove the preinstalled – and soon outdated – .deb-package version of LibreOffice :)

Wait... Do Linux apps (Firefox etc) not self update like Windows and MacOS?

No, that is usually the responsibility of the system wide package management system. :)

Re: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver Released

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Post by dingo_bat »

roryisok wrote: post #15
thibran wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To get the latest version of an app you can use snap-packages. E.g. to always get automatically the newest version of LibreOffice: sudo snap install libreoffice Don't forget to remove the preinstalled – and soon outdated – .deb-package version of LibreOffice :)

Wait... Do Linux apps (Firefox etc) not self update like Windows and MacOS?

No, they depend on the package manager to do that.

Re: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver Released

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Post by pasta »

roryisok wrote: post #15
thibran wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To get the latest version of an app you can use snap-packages. E.g. to always get automatically the newest version of LibreOffice: sudo snap install libreoffice Don't forget to remove the preinstalled – and soon outdated – .deb-package version of LibreOffice :)

Wait... Do Linux apps (Firefox etc) not self update like Windows and MacOS?

No. And there are multiple reasons for this.

One example: when Firefox decides to integrade a keylogger it is very unlikely you will find that release on your Ubuntu installation.

But in my experience Firefox is updated very soon after official releases.

Re: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver Released

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Post by Schiphol »

roryisok wrote: post #15
thibran wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To get the latest version of an app you can use snap-packages. E.g. to always get automatically the newest version of LibreOffice: sudo snap install libreoffice Don't forget to remove the preinstalled – and soon outdated – .deb-package version of LibreOffice :)

Wait... Do Linux apps (Firefox etc) not self update like Windows and MacOS?

That's not for "Linux" to say. It would be easy to set up a Linux system that updates automatically, but it's more sensible to have the user review changes before updating. This is the default policy in all Linux distributions I'm familiar with.
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