I am building a new workstation and I really, Really, REALLY
want to fire it up with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with Trinity R14.0.3.

Ref: https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/LiveCDs , has anyone built a
Live CD for Xenial yet?  Or, is a Live CD under construction?   Or,
has anyone installed installed TDE 14.0.3 on Ubuntu 16.04 yet and
could/would share their experiences if I run into "challenges"
during a raw install?

I don't believe I've seen any chatter about Ubuntu 16.04 on this list.
And, I really do not want to start out 2-years old with Ubuntu 14.04.
"Inertia" usually prevents me from upgrading releases once I have a
solid linux workstaion humming along.  Hell, my primary workstation is
 $ cat /etc/lsb-release
 DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
 DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04
 DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid
 DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS"
  ... with TDE 3.5.13.3

Thanks for reading this, and thanks for TDE!!
Jonesy
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