Upgrade NodeJS and Ubuntu Base

[tahosa]

I'm a long-time user of MineOS and would like to see it continue. The current NodeJS 14.x and Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal) releases that it is currently based on are quite out of date.

I'm going to be working on this on my fork in the meantime, but wanted to start a conversation about this upgrade and potential problems. As several open issues indicate, there are some problems with node-gyp which seem to be mostly related to Python 3.11+ compatibility. Additionally, an early test locally seems to indicate some problems with the nodeunit tests, though it is unclear exactly what is wrong because the output doesn't have a detailed stacktrace:

✖ chown

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✖ chown_recursive

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I will update this thread as I have more details about the upgrade testing I do.

[tahosa]

I'm also a full-stack Node developer and build engineer and would be interested in further upgrades to MineOS to help it be more future-proof including:

• Upgrade AngularJS to a supported framework (Angular or convert it to React)
• Convert to TypeScript
• Convert tests to Mocha or Jest
• Package new ISO distribution and/or OVA/OVF virtualization templates

[GroteVriendelijkeReus]

@tahosa that would be great. MineOS still has some great potentials.