System Update froze - UbuntuMATE 16-04

[Bret Busby]

On 20/06/2018, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 20/06/2018, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 20 Jun 2018 at 07:02, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I think it safer to leave the v16.04 Ubuntu base "security" updates,
>>> until 16.04.(n+1) is released.
>>
>> 16.04.1 was over 18 months ago.
>>
>> Do you mean 18.04?
>>
>
> No - if 16.04,1 is the current latest version of 16.04, then I mean 16.04.2
> .
>
> I mean the next release of 16.04 after the current release of 16.04 .
>
> I have 18.04 installed as a clean install on a newer computer (I had
> mentioned that,in a previoous post, when I could not select to boot
> into Ubuntu, and then I later found that it was a UEFI/BIOS setting),
> but, we were advised to leave upgrading from 16.04.x to 18.04, until
> 18.04.1 is released, which, when the information was published, was
> expected to be released sometime next month, from memory.
>

Oh, and, I am unsure about upgrading from 16.04 to 18.04, as I do not
know whether the upgrade process will remove applications that are not
included in 18.04.

Netsurf is not (or, I could not find it) in 18.04, the Ubuntu Software
Centre is not available, and MeTV is not available, and, on this
computer (which has the current initramfs problem), is the only
computer out of three, upon which, I have been able to get the
television adaptor working - It does not work with 18.04, but, works
with MS Windows 10, on that newer computer, and, my super-dooper
laptop, with the i7 and 32GB RAM, does not work with it - while that
one has MeTV running on 16.04, apparently, the television adaptor
conflicts with the nVIDIA system in the computer.

So, if the applications present in 16.04, that I am using, are not
likely to both remain, and, be at least as functional, after an
upgrade to 18.04, then I will probably stay with 16.04, on the
computers that have it installed, until 16.04 is no longer supported,
which should give me (almost) three more years. By then, I may have
carked it, anyway.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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