What is the difference between hashicorp/precise64 and hashicorp/bionic64?

Question

I found some online tutorial is using vagrant init hashicorp/bionic64 or vagrant init hashicorp/precise64 to initialize Vagrant.

I only found these info about these two boxes:

• https://app.vagrantup.com/hashicorp/boxes/bionic64
• https://app.vagrantup.com/hashicorp/boxes/precise64

So

• hashicorp/precise64 v1.1.0 is created almost 8 years ago.
• hashicorp/bionic64 v1.0.282 is created over 2 years ago.

What is the real difference between hashicorp/precise64 and hashicorp/bionic64?

Thanks!

Answer 1

The Ubuntu operating system uses alliterative animal names for each of its major releases. "Precise Pangolin" is the name for Ubuntu 12.04 and "Bionic Beaver" is the name for Ubuntu 18.04.

hashicorp/precise64 is an Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit operating system, and hashicorp/bionic64 is an Ubuntu 18.04 64-bit operating system.