Skylake & M.2 Support 15.10 Questions

[brianewalsh2]

Im considering upgrading my system to the new socket with a i5 6600k and was wondering how is Skylake running on 15.10, does anyone have a skylake system, how is performance and is there any weird bugs? Also Id really like to use an M.2 as my system drive, how is the install process installing to an M.2 with ubuntu mate 15.10? I know for a while windows was having issues making an M.2 a boot drive, does this persist in ubuntu?

[oldfred]

Skylake may be better with 16.04. If an earlier Ubuntu version you need to add ppa to get new video & kernels that will be standard in 16.04.

Intel's Skylake Audio Firmware Lands
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...Audio-Firmware
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...Firmware-Blobs
Best Ubuntu version for new Z170 motherboards /w Intel video? Oct 2015
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2292521
Skylake Intel Core i5 6500: A Great Skylake CPU For $200, Works Well On Linux, 4.3 kernel for best graphics
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...-i5-6500&num=1
Skylake needs this boot parameter: i915.preliminary_hw_support=1
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...Prelim-Support

[brianewalsh2]

Yeah I was taking a look at some of those threads already. 16.04 now is a little too cutting edge. I was hoping that 15.10 might have some support