On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 09:58, Michael <[email protected]> wrote: > > John Jason Jordan wrote: >> Don't. >> >> OK, I have never used KDE before. But I am now poking at it because it's all >> I >> can get working. Maybe y'all KDE dudes and dudettes can convince me to keep >> it. If Gnome won't run, to hell with it, eh? >> >> Meantime, the dist-upgrade to Jaunty is a pile of problems. I recommend y'all >> hold off. > > Gee, I was just about to update Gutted Gutsy to Handy Hardy[1]. LTS is good > there for another two or four years, desktop and server.
yup. hardy is our standard platform until another LTS comes out. which mark shuttleworth recently intimated might be 10.10 instead of 10.4 as one might have supposed: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/288 my colocated machine (2,312 miles from here) is still running 6.06 LTS. i am so happy with ubuntu's promise-keeping abilities re: actual long-term support--i don't have to fly to texas just to upgrade it. yet =) (long story about why the machine has to stay at its current IP forever lest it become largely useless to me) > [1] I was distracted by other things and missed the EOL, last Saturday, for > Gutsy. Not only did they cease providing new patches, the repositories are > offline preventing me from installing stuff that was current 10 days ago. here's what i did when feisty fell off the support and caught me unawares. i presume gutsy is in the same boat--no new updates, but old ones still available here: deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty main universe restricted multiverse deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-updates main universe restricted multiverse deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-security main universe restricted multiverse _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
