Why select Ubuntu 18.04 LTS vs Ubuntu 19.04 LTS vs Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Hi @tinomuda,

The lab guide is presented, and has been tested, on specific versions for the operating system, kubernetes environment, runtime, etc... While the content may work on other Ubuntu releases, such as 20.04 LTS , 19.04, and 19.10, the lab guide is based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Using the presented Ubuntu release yields a learning environment consistent with the lab guide, and it will help with troubleshooting when it becomes necessary. Using other releases, however, and other software packages, may not produce expected results and may be more challenging to troubleshoot.

Regards,
-Chris

Very glad to hear the news of coming update (for the course and exam). I was surprised also when I saw that video, among the first in this class, indicating that use of v18 vs 20. (Perhaps I'd missed it if indicated earlier in preliminaries.)

As this is my first course here, I'm curious to hear how we current students will learn of that update. Would we be emailed directly, or is it our responsibility to notice a posting in the news section here?

Along the same lines, as for getting notified about any replies to this specific thread, I wondered if interested folks might be able to merely register interest to be notified if this thread itself was updated, but I could not see a way.

In fact, it's not even clear if I would get an email notification of any replies now that I have commented here. (This is my first ever comment in these forums.) Does anyone know, for either case?

Sorry to raise those separate questions here, but again other new students may well find this thread and wonder all the above. :-) Thanks

Hi @carehart

We post in the forum every time the course is updated. So you can definitely check the forum periodically, as this is the place to go for assistance as well as updated on course material. You should receive notifications when a new post is added to a thread you posted in, but cannot enable notifications at the course forum level.

Regards,

Flavia

The Linux Foundation Training Team

Correction to my last comment: it seems I only got an email notification because fcioanca had mentioned me. The subject of the email said, "fcioanca mentioned you..." So it seems that such email notifications are not on by default (to be notified if someone comments in a thread I've participated in).

But I just found that that's something that IS configurable in the "preferences" feature for these forums. Again, I leave this for the benefit of other readers.