[GTALUG] Ubuntu 16.04 out

Paul King sciguy at vex.net
Sat Apr 23 22:15:21 EDT 2016


Anyone know when Ubuntu Studio will offer an LTS update? I don't see a proposed 
release date on their website. I imagine it should be soon.

Paul

On 21 Apr 2016 at 12:19, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:

> I just downloaded AMD64 live desktop Ubuntu 16.04.
> 
> Downloading was quick.  8 minutes on my supposedly 25mbit VDSL connection.
> 
> It used to be that you had to use a specialized tool to write ubuntu
> on a USB stick from a .iso file.  Just dd-ing it works with this
> release (at least).
> 
> The 64-bit .iso does not have 32-bit UEFI support.  Rats.  I think
> that this would only have required:
> EFI/BOOT/BOOTx32.EFI, EFI/BOOT/grubi32.efi
> and a 32-bit version of the grub command.  I don't think that it
> would add significantly to the .iso size and would allow support for
> a bunch of cheap devices.  debian multiboot manages this.
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