For those still running Ubuntu 16.10, which was
released last October, it’s time to upgrade. Also known as 'Yakkety Yak', it
was released on October 13, 2016, and as per short-term release lifespans, has
petered out its nine-month support cycle. If you’re still running 16.10, then
it’s time to upgrade to Ubuntu 17.04 which will be supported until the start of
2018.
Once a release, such as Ubuntu 16.10, reaches its
end of life, it no longer receives any maintenance updates, critical security
patches, or updated packages. The long-term support releases are better suited
for people who don’t enjoy upgrading their system every six to nine months.
The current long-term support release is Ubuntu
16.04, which will continue to receive updates until spring 2021. In the
meantime, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS will be released in April 2018; that release will be
given life until April 2023.
According to a statement from Ubuntu, in order to
find out the support status of your system, open the terminal and type:
ubuntu-support-status. “If you’re on an unsupported release you should be able
to open the update manager and be offered an upgrade to a newer version. Doing
system upgrades on Ubuntu is usually problem-free, but depending on how much
tinkering you’ve done to your system, you may experience problems” said the
statement.
In a related development, Microsoft has announced at
its Build 2017 developer conference earlier this year that Ubuntu would be
heading to the Windows Store, and now the popular Linux distro is available to
download.
Ubuntu — like SUSE Linux and Fedora, the other two
forthcoming Linux distros heading to the store — runs in a sandbox alongside
Windows 10, and offers regular command-line utilities as a standalone
installation, with shared access to files and hardware with Windows 10.
In order to install Ubuntu, users will have to
navigate to Control Panel (not the newer Windows 10 Settings app) and select
the "Turn Windows features on or off" menu. There, you’ll be able to
select the "Windows Subsystem for Linux," which will allow Ubuntu to
work following a reboot.
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