Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS Working To Be Released This Week With New Hardware Enablement Stack

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS Working To Be Released This Week With New Hardware Enablement Stack

After failing to make it out last week due to a boot failure bug blocking the release, Ubuntu developers are working on getting out the 18.04.2 LTS point release this week that will ship a new Hardware Enablement "HWE" stack...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-18.04.2-This-Week

[Brisse]

this second pint

Cheers!

[alqm]

Switching to 4.18 will mean this bug will start to affect more people: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...x/+bug/1798961
Random unrecoverable freezes on Ubuntu 18.10

[andre30correia]

Switching to 4.18 will mean this bug will start to affect more people: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...x/+bug/1798961
Random unrecoverable freezes on Ubuntu 18.10

correct already, it's why they push this version a week after the schedule

[Charlie68]

Fortunately, Ubuntu .00 and 01 does not automatically update the HWE stack, it only does from 02 onwards, which should be avoided if you do not have new hardware. From my experience it is no coincidence that this policy has brought more problems to the users than benefits.

[cybertraveler]

Fortunately, Ubuntu .00 and 01 does not automatically update the HWE stack, it only does from 02 onwards, which should be avoided if you do not have new hardware. ...

Depends really. One of my Intel systems runs Ubuntu and it has benefited from the HWE stack upgrades. The Intel, onboard graphics run noticably faster. I even do some before and after benchmarks and found a measurable difference. It was like a 15% improvement IIRC.