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Upgrade Rescuezilla to an Ubuntu 20.04 operating system base #51

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shasheene opened this issue Apr 6, 2020 · 1 comment
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Upgrade Rescuezilla to an Ubuntu 20.04 operating system base #51

shasheene opened this issue Apr 6, 2020 · 1 comment
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A Sourceforge user has asked about the timeframe for Rescuezilla to upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04 (which will be released on April 23, 2020). I responded:

Yes, Rescuezilla will be upgraded to use Ubuntu 20.04 as soon as it is released.

Importantly, the version of Rescuezilla based on Ubuntu 20.04 will be 64-bit only. This is because Ubuntu 20.04 does not provide support for 32-bit x86 machines (except for applications like Steam). Given that Ubuntu 18.04 will continue to get security updates for 5 years, it is reasonable to continue to provide a 32-bit version of Rescuezilla based on Ubuntu 18.04 until the year 2023.

Having two versions based on different Ubuntu versions will increase the overhead to provide support to end-users, but its the correct thing to do.

There's little harm in staying on Ubuntu 18.04 for a little bit longer. Especially since Ubuntu 18.04 will be able to use the 20.04 kernel via LTS Enablement/HWE, which means any 18.04-based Rescuezilla build made after August 2020 will benefit from this. The benefit in upgrading is more recent versions of packages like GParted.

The exact timing of the upgrade is to-be-determined. Upgrading to 20.04 will happen after certain key Rescuezilla features have been implemented.
@shasheene shasheene self-assigned this Apr 6, 2020
@shasheene shasheene added the enhancement New feature or request label Apr 6, 2020
@shasheene shasheene added this to To do in Rescuezilla v1.0.6 Milestone Kanban Board via automation Apr 21, 2020
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shasheene added a commit to shasheene/rescuezilla-dev that referenced this issue Apr 29, 2020
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Upgrades AMD64 build to Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal)
fd4a9b7 
Upgrades the Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic) AMD build to Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal).

The creators of Ubuntu no longer create i386 builds for all packages (except
for a few packages for compatiblity for applications like WINE) since Ubuntu
19.04. Because of this, the Rescuezilla i386 will remain based on Ubuntu 18.04
(Bionic) until further notice.

This commit does not modify the host operating system (via Dockerfile). However
it updates build instructions to capture the potential need to use a backports
repository so debootstrap has the Focal bootstrap scripts.

No official AMD64 Rescuezilla build has yet been released. Given the recent
release of Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal), there is little reason release a AMD64 build
of Rescuezilla based on Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic) only to immediately upgrade to
Focal. Because of this, this simple commit alone is sufficient to close several
separate GitHub issues:

Fixes rescuezilla#3

Fixes rescuezilla#15

Fixes rescuezilla#51
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Fixed in Rescuezilla v1.0.6.

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