ubuntu 16.04 release today

[Essence_of_War]

http://releases.ubuntu.com/16.04/

Anyone upgrading soon? I've got a new ssd and some OS upgrades to do this weekend!

 

[VirtualLarry]

Now with ZFS support, I heard.

 

[Essence_of_War]

Now with ZFS support, I heard.

Yup, built in loadable kernel module.

And lxd/lxc containers v. 2.0! There are a bunch of nifty features.

 

[grimpr]

Awesome release, the ZFS support and the containers will make a powerful fileserver and vm platform.

 

[lxskllr]

I've got a new ssd and some OS upgrades to do this weekend!

Same! I bought an ssd for my work box today, and plan on cloning it tomorrow. If the upgrade to Xubuntu goes wrong for some reason, I'll have an up to date backup :^)

edit:
maybe I won't be upgrading tomorrow. From reddit...

I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to update to 16.04 from 14.04 just yet. The release email I received today did say to wait until 16.04.1 to upgrade.

EDIT: I guess I should paste the text.

Users of Ubuntu 15.10 will be offered an automatic upgrade to 16.04 LTS via Update Manager shortly. Users of 14.04 LTS will be offered the automatic upgrade when 16.04.1 LTS is released, which is scheduled for July 21st. For further information about upgrading, see:

http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/upgrade

Apparently there's problems with systemd during the upgrade. They can be worked through, but for an easy upgrade, it's probably better to wait.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

I'll probably whip up a template and do any new application deployments on it. Might think about migrating our 10.04 and 12.04 systems some day.

 

[replica9000]

Speaking of ZFS, I'm currently setting up Ubuntu devel branch on a new laptop running ZFS. I already have Debian with ZFS on it. The datasets are zroot/debian, and zroot/ubuntu. Debian boots just fine, however, Ubuntu insists that the zpool it's looking for is called rpool and not zroot. So every time I boot Ubuntu, I need to import the pool, and manually mount the zroot/ubuntu to /root before exiting initramfs. Is there something Ubuntu is doing differently and Debian for ZFS? Both are using the ZoL packages.

Edit: Turns out Debian is happy with only the boot=zfs parameter. With Ubuntu, I had to specify the rpool=zroot and bootfs=zroot/ubuntu parameters.