Chris SiebenmannIt has been '0' days since I found an incompatibility in Ubuntu 26.04 Rust coreutils: 'stty tabs'. Also, the uutils stty manpage is absolutely ass in 26.04.
Robert Pluim 🇪🇺@cks I'm curious what there is in Ubuntu that keeps you using it rather than some other Debian-based distro. I have a toy install running, but it keeps getting worse at every upgrade
@rpluim At the time we started (~20 years ago) it was our best option for long support + reasonably current + big package set. Today, Debian is pretty much as good on all three and we stay out of inertia and mild existing Ubuntu-specific knowledge.
Edit: also a predictable release schedule, a LTS every two years in April is easy to plan for.
stephen@cks @rpluim The predictable LTS release and excellent package selection is what kept my work on Ubuntu. But I think we are switching away to anything else.
Changes to the 24.04 installer mid 2025 messed up some server installs. Problems with snaps. These problems you have with 26.04. Not great for a server OS.
@dmaonR @rpluim To be polite¹ to Ubuntu/Canonical, 26.04 is currently explicitly a daily development build before even a beta release. But we're so close to beta (officially the 26th) that I don't expect this issue to be fixed before then, and it's an extremely obvious issue that is trivial to automatically test in a VM.
(The entire installer can be driven through a configuration file.)
¹ (I refuse to be 'fair' to Canonical.)