8.04 still a fine version

[Mike McMullin]

On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 18:23 -0700, Johnneylee Rollins wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Karl Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 04/06/2010 07:00 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> >> On Tue, 6 Apr 2010, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>      I am writing this on Thunderbird on my old 8.04 LTS which
> >>> needed updates, that were a new kernel and some fix on
> >>> Thunderbird and like that. It works fine and is a fine system
> >>> to keep working. The others from 8.04 and 10.04 are not as
> >>> interesting and I will let them die.
> >>>
> >> What will you do when security fixes stop coming in, what, a year?
> >>
> >>
> >         Just keep using it. The password and name keeps Linux 1000
> > times more secure than Windows!
> >
> 
> That method might work, if you stay off the internet with it.
> Security updates are rather important things.

  But aren't LTS version supported for 5 years?  That would EOL 8.04 at
the 13.04 stage.