[desktop] ubuntu-docs branch ready for yakkety

[Doug Smythies]

Hi Stephen,

On 2016.07.03 05:19 Stephen M. Webb wrote:
> On 16-07-03 12:20 AM, Doug Smythies wrote:
>> 
>> It didn't work on my 16.04 LapTop either.
>> Then I looked around at some references, and got the impression that no
>> it doesn't work on 16.04 desktops.
>> 
>> So I installed the daily iso for 16.10, and then it sort of works.

> It should work on 16.04 LTS.  It was extensively tested there.
> In fact, it's been available in the archives and working
> (see below) since at least 14.04.  We had the entire Unity 8
> development team dogfood Unity 8 on 16.04 for at least a
> day a couple of weeks ago, as a test.

I defer to your input on this. However, my experience was identical
to what Hannie wrote in her bug report.

> There are two caveats, of course:
> 
> (1) The proprietary binary-blob video drivers from nVidia and AMD still do not yet support Mir, so you need to use free
> software drivers. Not all the video drivers in VMs support Mir either, so it may not work in all VMs.

Graphics seemed fine.

> (2) You need to have the Stable Phone Overlay PPA in your sources to get the latest bugfixes and changes if you want to
> see a preview of what should appear in 16.10 (it matches exactly the versions on the phone and in the archives for
> 16.10, but built for 16.04).  It should still work without that PPA, but be missing a whole lot of functionality that's
> scheduled to appear in 16.10.

If I go to the PPA page it says:
"NOTE! This PPA is currently not recommended for Desktop use."
So I didn't, and won't, use it.

On the Ubuntu forums thread I referenced it also said to not use the PPA for a 16.10 machine.

... Doug