[Tfug] Ubuntu support?

andy andyjones at cox.net
Mon Oct 29 16:22:43 MST 2007


Jim, are you saying this occurs at the point of the next release (gutsy)
or at that 18 month end of life point?

On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 12:58 -0700, Jim March wrote:
> "Supported" means "security updates", not "feature and functionality
> updates".  Feisty will not be officially updated to OpenOffice 2.3 for
> example.  You can download OO2.3 from source and try and splice it
> in...
> 
> Jim
> 
> On 10/29/07, Nate <nate at seekio.com> wrote:
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> > The way I understand it, normal non-LTS releases are supported for a
> > year and a half.  LTS releases (The last being Dapper) are supported for
> > 3 years.  I'm still running Dapper myself, and have no reason to upgrade.
> >
> > Nate
> >
> > andy wrote:
> > > Does anyone know the end of life for Ubuntu releases works? I understand
> > > that Ubuntu has regular upgrades and then long term support upgrades as
> > > well. Do they stop supporting the regular releases such as Fiesty when
> > > the next regular release such as Gutsy comes out?
> > >
> > > I ask because Gutsy is out and it sounds like it's full of problems, so
> > > I'd like to keep my Fiesty running as long as possible, at least until
> > > they get a lot of the problems fixed in Gutsy.
> > >
> > > Andy
> > >
> > >
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