09-28-2017, 07:22 AM
I have just been playing with the Artful minimal image and Lubuntu-QT-Desktop which works real nice.
17.10 has the 4.13 Kernel but was looking at the dates and hoping maybe the 4.14 LTS will be released before the 5th Kernel Freeze — October 5th.
The inclusion of 17.10 I guess is statement of intent and both LTS of 18.04 & 4.14 are a wished destination.
he complete release schedule of Ubuntu 17.10 as follows:
Alpha 1 — June 29th
Alpha 2 — July 27th
Feature Freeze — August 24th
Beta 1 — August 31st
Final Beta — September 28th
Kernel Freeze — October 5th
Release Candidate — October 12th
Ubuntu 17.10 final release — October 19th
4.14 is already RC2 so maybe and its brilliant to have a product and being among developers who are talented enough to be so bleeding edge.
Its looking really good for the Rock64 as a LTS product that will have a long life and the pains for some of early adoption are prob going to pay dividends.
I have seen some entries for other Arm SoCs but Rockchip & Pine have got much adoption in the kernel.
My alternative to the Rock64 is the Odroid XU4 and maybe I have missed things but its looks like hardkernel have missed the 4.14 boat.
Raspberry dont have a Pi4 till 2019 and looking like the Rock64 has a market space of 2 years.
There will be a beer for backporting 4.14 for Ayufan and think without asking that is going to happen if 17.10 misses 4.14 but it could end up in 17.10 and Ayufan & Ubuntu seem to have working images with 17.10 & the 130 release.
Unlike all the other images the pre-release 130 works whilst 118 release doesn't with 17.10.
If your playing with linux I suggest having a look at 17.10 armHF Lubuntu-QT-Desktop as its under heavy development for the 17.10 release so actually its quite stable.
Also maybe its the MALI driver of 4.12 or a fix but the colours seem to look more vibrant.
17.10 has the 4.13 Kernel but was looking at the dates and hoping maybe the 4.14 LTS will be released before the 5th Kernel Freeze — October 5th.
The inclusion of 17.10 I guess is statement of intent and both LTS of 18.04 & 4.14 are a wished destination.
he complete release schedule of Ubuntu 17.10 as follows:
Alpha 1 — June 29th
Alpha 2 — July 27th
Feature Freeze — August 24th
Beta 1 — August 31st
Final Beta — September 28th
Kernel Freeze — October 5th
Release Candidate — October 12th
Ubuntu 17.10 final release — October 19th
4.14 is already RC2 so maybe and its brilliant to have a product and being among developers who are talented enough to be so bleeding edge.
Its looking really good for the Rock64 as a LTS product that will have a long life and the pains for some of early adoption are prob going to pay dividends.
I have seen some entries for other Arm SoCs but Rockchip & Pine have got much adoption in the kernel.
My alternative to the Rock64 is the Odroid XU4 and maybe I have missed things but its looks like hardkernel have missed the 4.14 boat.
Raspberry dont have a Pi4 till 2019 and looking like the Rock64 has a market space of 2 years.
There will be a beer for backporting 4.14 for Ayufan and think without asking that is going to happen if 17.10 misses 4.14 but it could end up in 17.10 and Ayufan & Ubuntu seem to have working images with 17.10 & the 130 release.
Unlike all the other images the pre-release 130 works whilst 118 release doesn't with 17.10.
If your playing with linux I suggest having a look at 17.10 armHF Lubuntu-QT-Desktop as its under heavy development for the 17.10 release so actually its quite stable.
Also maybe its the MALI driver of 4.12 or a fix but the colours seem to look more vibrant.