[kwlug-disc] Ubuntu 17.10

[CrankyOldBugger]

I think 17.10 is sort of the "18.04 beta".  They wanted to get GNOME out
the door now so they could break it and fix it before 18.04 LTS.


On Thu, 19 Oct 2017 at 13:44 L.D. Paniak <ldpaniak at fourpisolutions.com>
wrote:

> Is there anything compelling in 17.10 that I cannot get in 16.04 with HWE?
> It is to the point where I am ignoring non-LTS releases in general.
>
>
> On 10/19/2017 12:54 PM, Keefer Rourke wrote:
>
> I'm currently running Fedora 27 beta, and I'm really disappointed with
> GNOME 3.26.1 until recently, Mutter would crash any time you closed a
> maximized (or half-tiled) window. For a "stable" release, GNOME is hugely
> disappointing.
>
> The bugs in *vanilla* GNOME have been show-stoppers for the final release
> of Fedora 27 -- I'm honestly surprised that Canonical decided to release
> 17.10 with the current state of things.
>
> Cheers,
> Keefer
>
> On Thu, 2017-10-19 at 15:27 +0000, CrankyOldBugger wrote:
>
> And a reason why I like to test new stuff out via virtual machines, not
> real boxes!
>
> I had to submit two bug reports in the first few minutes.  But now it
> seems to be running a bit better after another reboot..
>
> What can I say about it?  If you ignore the bright orange background and
> the dock, it looks just like Fedora GNOME or any other GNOME.  It will be
> interesting to see how Canonical keeps us interested in their desktop
> product if it's just like anybody else's.
>
> Or maybe they'll just focus on the stuff they do well, like MaaS and
> server and docker, etc.
>
>
> On Thu, 19 Oct 2017 at 11:22 Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/19/17, CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I just downloaded the new Ubuntu 17.10 and installed it in a virtual
> > machine (virtualbox on a Windows host).
> >
> > So far, it's interesting, but I'm sure I don't need to remind the people
> > here to not drop a brand new release on a production box.  In other
> words,
> > I've come across quite a few bugs so far...
>
> One more reason I stay with LTS releases, and only after the .1 version
> of them comes out.
>
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