so the point is that if you find that your desktop box works with an original point.1 release you may find on new kernel install that the hardware (especially older nvidia/ATi graphics) will not work any longer however I would like to point out that 14.04 did in fact bring in support for a lot of older ATi graphics adapters but don't expect this support to be remedied at every flicker because convergence will be the main focus of most developers after 15.04 is released. This has happened during the 12.04 cycle where 12.04.1 would work just fine with Unity 2D on lower end machines and then completely bust with a fresh install of 12.04.2 or +(n).
Of course that could be cleaned up a lot with a couple of embedded links.īecause the Download page () does have a link to the release notes which tries to explain the issue (). Please take a moment to read about LTS hardware enablement here: Users not requiring the absolute latest hardware support may prefer using the archived 14.04.1 installation media to avoid HWE EOL upgrades. I followed the breakage reports for a while when 12.04.2, 12.04.3, and 12.04.4 installs reached HWE EOL:Īnd I had intended to file a documentation bug requesting that the download page mention briefly something to this effect: The average end user just wants things to work with the least possible hassle :) Until you try upgrading to a HWE stack that doesn't work and you find out that rolling back is nearly impossible.
True.but if you do each stack, you'd have the latest ubuntu kernel AND you would also get the support (assuming you are doing a 2 yr LTS to LTS cycle and not staying with it until end of life). It only directly affects one package - desmume & one partially as it is a recommend of wine1.6-amd64 So this time for instance libosmesa6 is not being done for the lts mesa & will not be installable in 14.04.2(lts
(- that's why an upgrade command probably doesn't need the kernel mentioned as it will be installed as a recommend of xserver-xorg-lts-utopicĪlso an obscure thing is the lts mesa is not fully built. While the mesa upgrade install doesn't 'require' a kernel install the newer kernel is a recommend of the newer mesa so it's likely a better idea to do both if doing mesa. There could also be some benefit to newer mesa, but again that's not guaranteed, could be worse in some cases or use casesĪs it stands the kernel upgrade install doesn't need a mesa upgrade install. 1 benefits from newer kernels is either debatable or individually determined.
This gives them the full support term of 14.04 2 or higher would then be advised to keep doing so thru. I mean according to Ubuntu wiki 3.16 has only 18 months of support even though the 14.04 release is a LTS? So if I understand correctly it would be pointless for someone whose hardware is already supported by the 3.13 kernel to create a new bootable media with 14.04.2 because the first kernel has a fullblown 5 years of support and not the subsequent HWE kernels?Īnyone that starts with. I didn't know that the other kernels had shorter support circle. I boot the minimal 14.04 from a core install, release upgraded to here from way way lsb_release -aĬodename: uname have no problems. The entry after - means that it will be carried to and used by the installed system The entry before - means that it will be used by the live system / the installer > Is this new usage of boot options general? Has anybody here seen this new way to use boot options (twice) before? But it has not trickled down to the desktop installer (yet?). I think this new way to use boot options is general, and should be used with other boot options too. See comments #12-15 of the bug report 1422675 () He showed that the usage of boot options has changed, and in this case the boot option forcepae must be used twice :-P I'm thinking of the red bugs 1417918 (), 1422675 () in the qa-tracker ()Ĭhris Bainbridge has squashed bug 1422675 () that stopped the installation in computers with Pentium M and Celeron M computers. I think it is also important to keep the Ubuntu mini.iso working for new as well as for old computers.
I hope we can squash these bugs well in time for the release of 14.04.3 LTS. Unfortunely there are some show-stopper bugs for the Lubuntu alternate installer, which is useful for people with very old computers or with problems with the graphics. Several flavours work well, and our newest LTS release is getting further debugged, developed and polished :-)