Ubuntu

Hopefully a super quick one (while I’m procrastinating from procrastinating). Debian Jessie is a lovely operating system until you try and do anything with it. Lots of Package deprecations etc etc etc. Anyway, I’ve got a history with GPU stuff and I’ve been playing with integrating it into some of my research, but in a bout of insanity I decided while I’m over in Liverpool (for another 4 hours) to wipe my old workstation and bring it over from Ubuntu 15.04 to Jessie (which I’ve been using on my main laptop for a while now). ...

I’m always amazed by Canonical. Particularly their documentation. Ubuntu Touch is the grand movement to bring Ubuntu into the mobile domain, and it’s developing fast. Can’t say the same about the documentation; too long and doesn’t really make sense. And for what is actually a fantastically simple process, it deserves better. The phablet-flash folks have done an amazing job. So without further ado, the assumption: If you’re thinking of putting Ubuntu on your device, I’d say it’s reasonable to assume that: ...

There’s several very valid tutorials and guides around about getting Ubuntu, Debian and Mint to automatically update and upgrade, but they don’t do much explaining/checking. This is a short post filling in the gaps I observed. Get the package sudo apt-get install unattended-upgrades -y Enable the package scheduler File Being Messed With: /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades Log File Being Watched: /var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades.log I’ve got no idea why this isn’t automatic; possibly that in other environments, you only want security level upgrades to core system components rather than updating all regular applications. (Not doing this left me scratching my head for a while wondering why the logs kept saying No packages found that can be upgraded unattended when apt was telling me something completely different. Anyway, put the following into a new file named above. ...