Question
What is the ubuntu-14-04-x64-do image?
- Posted on November 3, 2017
- DeploymentUbuntu
Asked by ivandigitalocean
It boots as Ubuntu 4.4.0-78.99~14.04.2-generic 4.4.62
Which is a more recent kernel than the ubuntu-14-04-x64 image’s provided 3.13.
But I’m not sure how else it’s tweaked (e.g. I found it was dpkg multiarch amd64/i386).
Is it supported? Should I even consider using it?
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ubuntu-14-04-x64-doimage contains an HWE kernel and theubuntu-14-04-x64image uses the 16.04 kernel. You should probably ping support for further details on this.