Paul McNett wrote: > On 4/30/10 9:09 AM, Ricardo Aráoz wrote: > >> Paul McNett wrote: >> >>> On 4/30/10 7:27 AM, Paul McNett wrote: >>> >>> >>>> On 4/30/10 4:51 AM, Kevin Cully wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> I downloaded the Ubuntu 10.04 ISO yesterday via a torrent. Going to >>>>> take it for a spin via the LiveCD method today. Probably won't upgrade >>>>> for a week or so though just to be safe. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> I'm looking forward to putting it on my server, which is still stuck at >>>> 8.10. >>>> >>>> >>> Ouch, correction: my server is still at 7.10. And the real pita is that at >>> some point >>> I couldn't even apt-get anymore (even to get the security backports) >>> because 7.10 >>> wasn't a LTS (long term support) release and sometime in 2009 they removed >>> the >>> repository access for it. >>> >>> Lesson learned: Ubuntu LTS on all my long-running servers. >>> >>> >>> >> I think for servers that's a five year support. Isn't it? >> > > Yep: 3 years desktop and 5 years server. Regular (non-LTS) releases get 18 > months > guaranteed support for desktop and server. My big mistake was upgrading to > 7.10 from > 6.04 LTS: I'd still have support if I'd stuck with the LTS version. > Or, you could have waited one year and upgraded to 8.xx (I think it was also an LTS) Well, you can now upgrade to 10.04 and not touch till 14.xx (provided the world does not end in 2012).
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