[Bio-linux-list] Is biolinux still on Ubuntu 14?

[Bishwa Kiran]

I have personally found ubuntu 16 to be more stable and able to manage memory more efficiently. Also, several required add-on are really handy - like being able to run terminal from any folder in ubuntu 16, but in ubuntu 14 i had to add some updates to get this functionality. Most importantly I was not able to put biolinux in sleep/suspend mode when I wanted. I have to do this because sometimes I have to pause my work and resume after couple hours and days without rebooting the whole system. This issue made me switch to ubuntu 16.

- Bishwa K.


> On Feb 19, 2017, at 7:04 AM, Tony Travis <tony.travis at minke-informatics.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> On 18/02/17 16:41, Bishwa Kiran wrote:
>> I begun with bio Linux and liked it a lot. But, I think the latest
>> biolinux is still using Ubuntu 14 as it's base. So, had to go with
>> Ubuntu 16 and add the required softwares. Has there been any momentum
>> to take this the latest Ubuntu base.
> 
> Hi, Bishwa.
> 
> Is there any particular reason why you need to use Ubuntu 16.04 LTS?
> 
> Ubuntu 14.04 LTS will be supported until April 2019:
> 
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases
> 
> Glad you like Bio-Linux :-)
> 
>  Tony.
> 
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