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Upgrading Servers from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS to 20.04 LTS

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11 minutes ago, Ohsnaps said:

Can't imagine any actual improvements. Its mostly some smaller changes. A lot being visual.

Ubuntu 20.04 is actually a huge upgrade to default 18.04, because it uses the new Linux 5.4 kernel. 

The new kernel brings in exFAT support, GPU improvements, more platform support, thunderbolt support, VirtIO-FS for those using QEMU/KVM, and lots of general fixes. 

For me the new Linux Kernel has so many changes it actually breaks my Nvidia/Docker so i'm unable to upgrade my Plex Server to Ubuntu 20.04 currently. 

 

Most of this means nothing to the OP. You can update 18.04 to the new kernel by applying the HWE update, but default theres a big difference in the kernels (4.15 > 5.4). 

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I have 3 CS:GO servers (on SourceMod) and a LAMP server (web) running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Is it worth the upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS? Just afraid that the troubles the upgrades might cause is not worth the improvements from the upgrade itself.

 

 

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3 minutes ago, Quackwich said:

I have 3 CS:GO servers (on SourceMod) and a LAMP server (web) running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Is it worth the upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS? Just afraid that the troubles the upgrades might cause is not worth the improvements from the upgrade itself.

Can't imagine any actual improvements. Its mostly some smaller changes. A lot being visual.

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11 minutes ago, Ohsnaps said:

Can't imagine any actual improvements. Its mostly some smaller changes. A lot being visual.

Ubuntu 20.04 is actually a huge upgrade to default 18.04, because it uses the new Linux 5.4 kernel. 

The new kernel brings in exFAT support, GPU improvements, more platform support, thunderbolt support, VirtIO-FS for those using QEMU/KVM, and lots of general fixes. 

For me the new Linux Kernel has so many changes it actually breaks my Nvidia/Docker so i'm unable to upgrade my Plex Server to Ubuntu 20.04 currently. 

 

Most of this means nothing to the OP. You can update 18.04 to the new kernel by applying the HWE update, but default theres a big difference in the kernels (4.15 > 5.4). 

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2 minutes ago, Jarsky said:

Most of this means nothing to the OP. You can update 18.04 to the new kernel by applying the HWE update, but default theres a big difference in the kernels (4.15 > 5.4). 

That was more of my point. I however didn't know that much changed which is definitely cool.

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1 minute ago, Jarsky said:

For me the new Linux Kernel has so many changes it actually breaks my Nvidia/Docker so i'm unable to upgrade my Plex Server to Ubuntu 20.04 currently. 

This is what I'm afraid of.

 

All my servers are VPS' running KVM, so I doubt any performance upgrades from a newer version of Ubuntu will be noticeable.

 

 

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