Rich Mingin (PLUG) on 17 Apr 2016 12:26:39 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] For the Engineers

Entertainingly, I was just hearing about CAELinux yesterday. Somebody on the Ubuntu forums was having ten tons of trouble getting his ethernet working. In a shocking set of revelations, CAELinux is based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is OLD like DIRT and METHUSELAH. His motherboard was a Z170 board.... From late 2015. I had to let him know gently that that motherboard and that distro could maybe be twisted into "kinda-working" condition, but I couldn't recommend running a distro older than the hardware as a matter of routine.

I get that CAELinux's whole schtick is about being uber-tested and terribly solid, but basing your distro on an LTS release with one year of life left to it doesn't seem bright, and I can't imagine throwing anything older than 14.04 on a new setup.

On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 1:22 PM, Keith C. Perry <kperry@daotechnologies.com> wrote:

Looks interesting.  I see a couple of things I've used before.

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KP-

On Apr 17, 2016 1:04 PM, Anthony Martin <anthony.j.martin142@gmail.com> wrote:
Found this and figured somebody would find this interesting (looking at you Keith Perry).

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