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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

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RoGeorge:
At each 2 years, in April, Ubuntu releases a LTS version (Long Time Support), which will benefit of 5 years of free updates from Ubuntu, and up to 10 years or more for paying customers.

In just a couple of weeks from now, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (named Focal Fossa,  :wtf: )

"Focal Fossa" is an epic failure for a name, if you ask me, because "fecal fosa".

Anyway, what I want to ask is if I can install today the daily builds for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ then update later to the official release in April, without reinstalling from scratch.

Does Ubuntu has continuity between daily builds and the official release?
Will it be possible to "upgrade" from the 20.04 LTS daily builds to the 20.04 LTS release?

Ampera:
So what you're saying is you want a bleeding edge long term stable version of Ubuntu? Isn't that sort of an oxymoron?

If you care about having long term stability, wait for the software to be stable long term, not before it's been released. If you want bleeding edge, may I point you to rolling release distros like SUSE Tumbleweed and Arch.

brucehoult:
Yup. Personally I'll be sticking with 18.04 until 20.04 has been out at least a few months. Eventually it gets automatically offered by the software updater.

RoGeorge:
Posting this from Kubuntu 20.04 LTS, and so far it's all working great!   :-+

No annoyances, no crashes, no undetected devices, and I set it to use 3rd party drivers (proprietary nVidia instead of the default open source Nouveau driver).  So far I like Plasma more than Gnome, but I need to read about basic KDE concepts.

Old Ubuntu (Gnome) 18.10 is still in place, untouched, since I have had an empty old 160GB HDD.

RoGeorge:
Meh, not perfect yet.  Somehow the display settings was messed up.  That was with Kubuntu and nVidia proprietary drivers.

There are 4 different monitors, each with it's own DPI/size/resolution, one is 4k.  An HDMI one is connected to the i7 GPU, the other 3 are connected to the nVidia GPU on Display Port 1.2, DVI and VGA.  No two the same.   ;D

With Kubuntu and nVidia nouveau driver (open source), VLC struggles or crashes with some 4k videos.

That was with Kubuntu 20.04 LTS prerelease, yesterday 's build.  Kubuntu means Ubuntu, but with KDE Plasma graphics interface.  The default Ubuntu uses Gnome 3 for graphics.

Will try the same tests, this time with Ubuntu 20.03 LTE (Gnome) and see how it goes.  For some reason, Kubuntu iso was 2.3GB, while Ubuntu is 2.8 GB.

Is this expected, Gnome to be much bigger than KDE/Plasma?

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