I'm trying to figure out what I should do to keep the Mac VM version alive for its users.
I think I have hundreds of existing users who use like the VM solution, it is a fallback for when Fruit Corp breaks the native version again, and last not least it's really useful I believe to have a Mac version which can build and run an Octave library or add-on that works under Linux, and supplies bit-for-bit identical calculation results.
AFAIK there is no Gnuplot 5 package available for Trusty - I don't know the reason for that.
Trusty has an EOL of 2019
Xenial is probably not usable with Vagrant etc at the moment.
Yakety is probably patched but has an EOL of February 2017
My guess is that Xenial will eventually get patched for Vagrant as emulation is mission critical for Ubuntu, and they cannot afford to have an LTS which is incompatibel with Vagrant, so if I move the base box to Xenial in a couple of months, the problem is solved. I don't want to move to anything except a LTS. Maybe the move was due anyway so at this point I'm not going to protest.
Or maybe I should move away from Ubuntu? Reasons? Suggestions?
Edmund