8.04 still a fine version

[Karl Larsen]

On 04/08/2010 09:56 AM, Preston Hagar wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 2:06 AM, Mike McMullin<mwmcmlln at mnsi.net>  wrote:
>    
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>      
> Desktop LTS is 3 years, server LTS is 5 years.  I am pretty sure that
> Karl is talking about his desktop 8.04 LTS, so it would end in 11.04.
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS
>
> I use an Ubuntu 8.04 desktop (it is actually Xubuntu) for my primary
> work machine.  I have stayed with the LTS because I depend on this
> machine to get my work done, so I would rather have stable then latest
> and greatest.  That being said, however, I am planning to upgrade to
> 10.04 LTS when it is released since I would really like newer versions
> of a few programs (namely firefox) without having to resort to nightly
> builds, extra ppas, or other random work-arounds.
>
> Just my 2 cents.
>
> Preston
>
>    
             I am using Lucid 10.04 Beta two now I think and it is what 
you want to get in early May 2010. It is a newer 8.04 and better.


73 Karl


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