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01-09-2017, 04:00 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2017
Distribution: Mageia
Posts: 2
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Mageia is really easy to install and use.
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01-09-2017, 10:50 AM
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#17
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2017
Distribution: Ubuntu
Posts: 2
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Thanks for all the helpful suggestions. After about five attempts, I was finally able to install Ubuntu 16.04 LTS successfully. Each time I ran the DVD I made a little more progress. But the penultimate attempt really scared me. I couldn't boot either Ubuntu or Windows 10 in my targeted dual-boot system. But at that point I figured I had nothing more to lose from another attempt. To my amazement, the next pass went without a hitch. However, I found the latest LTS version of Ubuntu rather disappointing. For example, it had a really ancient version of Eclipse in the software installer. Looks like they keep updating the core OS but never update anything else.
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01-09-2017, 11:48 PM
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#18
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Member
Registered: Jun 2016
Distribution: any&all, in VBox; Ol'UnixCLI; NO GUI resources
Posts: 999
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A couple idea( s), from web-search of: ubuntu version of Eclipse
Last edited by Jjanel; 01-09-2017 at 11:53 PM.
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01-09-2017, 11:58 PM
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#19
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LQ Guru
Registered: Nov 2008
Location: Pictland
Distribution: Linux Mint 21 MATE
Posts: 8,048
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Redcoat
Thanks for all the helpful suggestions. After about five attempts, I was finally able to install Ubuntu 16.04 LTS successfully. Each time I ran the DVD I made a little more progress. But the penultimate attempt really scared me. I couldn't boot either Ubuntu or Windows 10 in my targeted dual-boot system. But at that point I figured I had nothing more to lose from another attempt. To my amazement, the next pass went without a hitch. However, I found the latest LTS version of Ubuntu rather disappointing. For example, it had a really ancient version of Eclipse in the software installer. Looks like they keep updating the core OS but never update anything else.
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That's the price of stability.
To download and install the latest version of Eclipse: https://eclipse.org/downloads/index-...p?osType=linux
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1 members found this post helpful.
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01-10-2017, 05:55 AM
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#20
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LQ Guru
Registered: Apr 2010
Location: Continental USA
Distribution: Debian, Ubuntu, RedHat, DSL, Puppy, CentOS, Knoppix, Mint-DE, Sparky, VSIDO, tinycore, Q4OS, Manjaro
Posts: 6,321
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Originally Posted by hydrurga
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The above is exactly correct.
You can bypass the repo and related security, but you do adopt some risk in the process.
Understand, if you want to ride the cutting edge, you must expect to bleed a bit.
I like to run VSIDO and SPARKY LINUX. I love that I can get the very latest packages for them, but at times a package update will disable some function I need until the supporting packages catch up. LTS versions are valued for stability, and for stability you sacrifice being on the cutting edge.
If it is some comfort, both RHEL and UBUNTU backport major and security fixes into their LTS packages. Your feature set may be old, but they are generally not significantly less secure than the latest release.
Last edited by wpeckham; 01-10-2017 at 05:57 AM.
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1 members found this post helpful.
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