EOL of Warty?

[Matthew East]

On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 20:55 +0800, John wrote:
> Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > <quote who="Daniel Robitaille">
> > 
> >>So when is the official end of life of Warty going to be?  18 months from
> >>its release? Which makes it somewhere around April 20ish.  Or when Dapper
> >>is officially released?
> > 
> > 
> > Warty will hit EOL on April 20.
> 
> 
> I just had an enormous argument about this on Fedora. I have a FC3 box. 
> FC expired just before FC5's release, it's timed on when FC5 went into 
> testing.
> 
> The result is a lot of sleepyheads are running unsupported software out 
> of ignorance (I guess that would happen anyway).
> 
> The alternatives are to change configurations to point to different 
> repos for a short while, or to upgrade to FC4 which has a strictly 
> limited life.
> 
> I'm in the same position here. Wife's box runs Warty, she's allergic to 
> changes so I do them infrequently. It's Internet connexion is via modem, 
> updates are painful. The logical upgrade is to the latest release, the 
> one promised for April.

Upgrades jumping over distributions are not supported. You should get a
hoary cd, and upgrade to that, then breezy, etc.

Matt
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