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What is the best course of action for people that have been using 12.04? Upgrade straight way? Or wait (how long?) for this LTS to smooth out any potential edges? Other than the outdated packages (which seems to be a Debian thing, but that I've been able to work around by finding ppa's and building from source), I am decently happy with 12.04.


Is 12.04 the previous LTS release? I think I'm using the same one. To be honest, I'm sticking with it. I still have a few more years of support so I might as well just wait until kinks (if any) are ironed out.


Yes it is.


The official advice is to wait till 14.04.1 which is scheduled for a July release.


Well, two good reasons (at least to me) are the newer kernel and an up-to-date version of openssh.

I've upgraded 2 VMs so far from 12.04. One broke (not a big deal) and the other worked just fine.

Mind you, you will have to do some fiddling to get ed25519 host and user keys working. But it's not too hard to get working.


sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo do-release-upgrade

You might have to pass the -d flag to do-release-upgrade but it was fairly straightforward.




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