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Re: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

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Post by anonova »

fideloper wrote: post #155
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…

It looks like Ubuntu 16.04 comes with Nginx 1.9.15, which is both not the latest stable release (it's a development, aka MAINLINE, release, although Nginx development branch is pretty stable) and it's one minor version ahead of Nginx's own development PPA, which is at 1.9.14. The ppa[1] notes there's a newer version[2] also [1] https://launchpad.net/~nginx/+archive/ubuntu/development [2] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/…

No, many people get this wrong. Mainline is stable, and http://hg.nginx.org/nginx/ is dev. The labeled stable version is for distros that have strict upgrade policies.

nginx recommends using mainline over stable: "We recommend that in general you deploy the NGINX mainline branch at all times." [1]

[1]: https://www.nginx.com/blog/nginx-1-6-1-7-released/

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

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Post by mdeeks »

yrro wrote: post #64
ac wrote: post #43

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Could you, please, explain what .service files are and how they eliminate the need for bash scripts etc? Couldn't find anything in search results.

http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd-for-admins-3.html

Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ADZV5sJ...

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

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Post by jagger27 »

collinmanderson wrote: post #196
qznc wrote: post #127

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If you use 14.04, you usually upgrade at the first point release to 16.04.01, not now at 16.04.00. Only 15.10 will immediately suggest an update. Is this outdated or not applicable to servers?

You should hold off doing in-place upgrades using "do-release-upgrade" until 16.04.1 (due August/September). However, you can also "upgrade" your stack by building a new image using 16.04 from scratch, and that doesn't need to wait until 16.04.1.

You can also force the upgrade with do-release-upgrade -d

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

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Post by gkya »

Karunamon wrote: post #106
cstuder wrote: post #103

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http://askubuntu.com/questions/113194/what-will-happen-when-...

Interesting question, and closed as "not constructive". Typical.

If someone some day decides to commit a pedantocide, the first thing he'll do will be to compile a list of stack exchange mods.

Silly joke aside, this sort of release scheme is really confusing to me, lts and stable branches with normal version numbers are way more simple. Besides, these uncommon words are easily forgotten.

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

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Post by stephenr »

bryanlarsen wrote: post #185
kps wrote: post #176

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And test them on a shell that isn't bash. Even with the --posix option bash accepts non-standard bashisms, particularly the execrable 'extension' of '>&'.

That's why I always put "#!/usr/bin/env bash" at the top of my scripts. Most were written to be portable, but unless it's been well tested, it's best to consider it not portable. Fail early and predictably rather than in strange ways.

That.. Isn't the solution. The point is that bash is not a good target for shell scripts, not that you should use env to detect the location of bash.

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

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Post by rhodysurf »

criddell wrote: post #72
rhodysurf wrote: post #58

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Having two control panels

Not a fan of TIMTOWTDI?

I like more than one way to do things, the issue is the two control panels do different things and its impossible to remember which does what.

For example, I can configure a VPN adapter in one Control Panel (Legacy) but I have to go to the other Control Panel (New) to connect or disconnect it or anything like that.

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

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Post by Karunamon »

gkya wrote: post #215
Karunamon wrote: post #106

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Interesting question, and closed as "not constructive". Typical.

If someone some day decides to commit a pedantocide , the first thing he'll do will be to compile a list of stack exchange mods. Silly joke aside, this sort of release scheme is really confusing to me, lts and stable branches with normal version numbers are way more simple. Besides, these uncommon words are easily forgotten.

They use both, though. The word gets used in various places in packaging schemes, the number gets used everywhere it matters.

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

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Post by chippy »

rleigh wrote: post #163
fulafel wrote: post #156

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Most people with AMD graphics have been using the open source drivers and will just see all around improvements. edit: Also, you can get Vulkan with the new drivers.

This very much depends upon whether you want the latest OpenGL 4.x features or not. Compute shaders, etc. Most people won't notice, but if you want to develop or use applications using these features, the open drivers aren't yet up to par, so for these cases it is indeed a major downgrade.

So to be more accurate, its more developing with these graphics functions, rather than gaming? games developing vs games playing.
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