I'm still using 14.04 on my desktop, laptop, home server and dedicated server, as 14.04 is a long term release, benefitting of years of support.
5 years of support, to be precise!
It helps focusing on working instead of adjusting little things that can break or change with a new distro version.
But it's time to evaluate this new release ☺
A Virtual Machine is always convenient for that.
What's new:
https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/10/22/whats-new-in-ubuntu-15-10-cloud-and-server/
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We've launched! Here's what's new in Ubuntu 15.10 for desktop and devices: http://ubunt.eu/15.10
What’s new in Ubuntu 15.10: desktop and devices
The desktop edition of Ubuntu 15.10 will be available for download from today – 22nd October – with the latest developer tools and freshest desktop interface, with a preview of the converged phone, desktop and tablet experience that has been making waves in the tech community. Over-the-air updates to Ubuntu Phone Users of the Ubuntu Phone will automatically receive all features of Ubuntu 15.10, demonstrating for the first time the integration of…
Yeah, I'm only using LTS versions. Feels safest.
Wonder how long it will take Ubuntu GNOME to update.
+François Simond do you use vnc on your home server? If not what do you use for remote control/viewing?
Using LTS on home server but regular versions on other computers
+Joaquim Santos ssh: I'm a former sysadmin so text files and vim are the only UI I need 😊
+François Simond the problem with text is that certain apps don't use text console as input or limits greatly what you do with the console.
And you can setup VNC from the console, so there's that
+Joaquim Santos as my whole environment is Linux based I'm not aware of such issue.
Are you referring to a Windows ssh client that would ship with inadequate defaults, like for character encodings?
Sometimes I use a ssh client from my phone for a small configuration change, it's convenient.
My server machines don't have graphical packages or libs installed tho, using VNC for graphical UIs would be kind of a pain instead.
I don't know what apps you're thinking of +Joaquim Santos but a Linux server certainly doesn't require any gui running to provide any services you could think of. I've never ever installed any Linux server with a gui in my 20 years running Linux. Totally pointless. As they're either virtual or headless (or remote).
+François Simond i was referring to tunnelling thru ssh. Mine do have gui because I need them occasionally for things that a server isn't usually used. I use ssh for the most part, almost 90% of the time if not more.
I don't use Windows since more than 10 years, not even as clients
+Christian Kaderud for example.. I use qbittorrent to automatically download series thru a rss feed, don't know of any console option for doing that
+Joaquim Santos I see, for a specific app that's not designed to run headless.
I already used transmission to torrent stuff but it's rare so I start it manually and use the Web UI, sorry I'm not competent for that kind of usage 😇