Broken VirtualBox

[MR ZenWiz]

On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 10:30 PM Native.Code <native.code at gmail.com> wrote:
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> This is because you need minimum VirtualBox version 6.1.14 to work with Kernel version 5.8 (6.1.14 was the first version to support kernel 5.8 which was offered by Ubuntu recently). However, the official focal repository still offers version 6.1.10 of VirtualBox as latest.
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I had this happen once before, but not on Ubuntu's VB.  I always use
the L&G from VB directly.  Problems of this nature tend to be far
fewer and less frequent.

I like that Canonical includes a lot of nice software with the
distros, but a lot of it is way behind the L&G.  The distro's
LibreOffice is up to 7.0.4, but the Focal release is 6.1 or
thereabouts.  Also, the kernel itself tends to be outdated by the time
the distro comes out.  5.11, which has much better AMD support, won't
be out until 22.04 LTS.  Mint has some other tempting contents that
might pry me off Canonical's releases, and Mint's LTS life is longer -
5 years instead of Xubuntu's 3.  (I can't stand the Ubuntu stock GUI,
and Mint supports XFCE4.)

I also don't use VB's PPA - I just go directly to their website and
download the most recent .deb and the external additions.  Works
better for me than the easy/lazy way.

Just a thought or several...

Mark