I see the developer's are hard at work with the 20.04 base. Will there be an upgrade path from the current version? Also, will there continue to be updates on the 18.04 based edition?
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Mark Shuttlesworth said that because of commercial needs and IoT, Ubuntu 18.04 will receive 10 years of support.
Kubuntu 20.04 LTS has a 3 year life. One LTS version can be upgraded to the next LTS version."A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
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I note that 18.04 has a 32bit version. I hope that 10 year support window will be honored for 32bit systems too. I have some old hardware that still runs nicely.Kubuntu 24.11 64bit under Kernel 6.12.3, Hp Pavilion, 6MB ram. Stay away from all things Google...Comment
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There will be system tray notification offering the upgrade to Neon 20.04 when it is ready.Originally posted by exploder View Post
Updates to the Neon repo for 18.04 will continue for a while, while people transition, but builds will be killed off when possible. e.g. last time the 16.04 builds were stopped apart from snaps (I think), in October following Neon 18.04's release in July.
Through signing up for ESM. Which for desktops only includes pages found in the Ubuntu base in 'main'. e.g. mostly packages used in or to build the Ubuntu desktop/server ISO. Packages in 'Universe' that might be critical to flavours would not get update AFAIK.Originally posted by GreyGeek View Post
Yes.Originally posted by TWPonKubuntu View PostOn #kubuntu-devel & #kubuntu on libera.chat - IRC Nick: RikMills - Launchpad ID: click
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The underlying OS, ubuntu 18.04 becomes upgradeable one the 20.04.1 point release is out, usually July.Comment
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Neon publishes their own release metadata, so technically they do not have to wait or sync the timing with Ubuntu.Originally posted by mr_raider View Post
https://releases.neon.kde.org/meta-release
Upgrades would be enabled when Neon adds focal to that.On #kubuntu-devel & #kubuntu on libera.chat - IRC Nick: RikMills - Launchpad ID: click
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Using Muon, I noticed a lot of packages are locked. Would this have any effect on the upgrade when it arrives?Comment
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Some examples?Originally posted by exploder View Post
I don't use Muon, but I don't see any packages marked held on my Neon systems.
Without looking, anything 'locked' may be to keep something Ubuntu or Kubuntu specific from updating or overwriting something Neon has customized.
Possibly, there is something on your system preventing packages being upgraded.Comment
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After a closer look it's only 3 installed packages, base-files, filesystem in userspace, and libfuse2. There are lots of others not installed that are locked as well. It must be to preserve something Noen specific as you said. I installed Muon more or less to check for residual configs and to keep things cleaned up. Discover seems lacking in that respect and synaptic itself pulls in too many dependencies for my liking. I wanted to keep things within the realm of qt wherever possible.
Edit: Thanks everyone for the information and help!Last edited by exploder; Jun 29, 2020, 12:46 PM.Comment
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You can take a sneak peek at what it might be like, here :·)
By installing the ISO or running it live, that is.Comment
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Thank you! I greatly appreciate it!Comment
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I would like to know when the upgrade is coming too. I bought a graphics card, an AMD RX 5500 XT which is not supported by KDE Neon it seems. I end up with a nasty looking resolution (forget now, will need to reboot to check). I had to install Kubuntu 20.04 on a newly created little partition to get the default resolution back, so sooner the better.Comment
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It'll be fairly soon.....
A call for testing:
https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?...25515aab164048
There goes my afternoon
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I tried the upgrade, it's not quite ready! Lost all networking ability and it removed Calligra Office. Glad I backed up my data first!Comment
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