On Wednesday 30 April 2008 14:03, Neal McBurnett wrote: > On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 01:36:44PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > >I don't know if there is a way of setting apt just to use the packages > > > with 5 years of support, but my guess is that there isn't. > > > > There isn't. Do keep in mind that "Support" in this context is > > commercial support provided by Canonical under their standard support > > contracts. The rest of this distro is not "Unsupported". It is > > supported by the Ubuntu community. Other companies may provide > > commercial support on other terms. I've not looked into it. > > I thought support was more about a committment to security fixes and > SRUs and things like that. E.g. even if Canonical went away for some > unforseen reason, the money dedicated to the Ubuntu Foundation would, > I assume, be used for security patches among other things. > > http://www.ubuntu.com/news/UbuntuFoundation > > "In order to support the use of free software on database and other > servers, we will be offering security support for the Ubuntu base and > major server components for a full five years", said Matt Zimmerman, > CTO of the Ubuntu project > > ...The extended service support for Ubuntu version 6.04 will remain free > of charge, under the same terms as the support currently provided to > every release of Ubuntu. > > I think it would help to have this made clearer in the sources.list > file and on the website. E.g. mentioning motu-swat in those contexts.
I would assume. Yes. That's mostly the kind of support I meant, not primarily that answering your questions kind. The motu-swat team is part of the community support I described earlier. Scott K -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
