10.04? No thanks, I give up!

[Tom H]

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Robert Spanjaard <spamtrap at arumes.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 10 May 2010 15:45:49 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>
>> 2010/5/10 Edgars Šmits <ed.smits at gmail.com>:
>>> I finally give up on 10.04, it's not worth the hassle of trying to get
>>> my video output fixed. When last I wrote I was happily working away in
>>> the wonderful new 10.04 world (not an upgrade, a clean install), when
> [...]
>>> to sort them out with help from this list, but this time I give up. I
>>> don't want to be a computer geek, I just want to load an OS that works
>>> as I expect it to.
>>
>> You did not have to move to 10.04 as soon as it was released! But you
>> will have to move away from 9.04 when 10.10 comes out because 9.04
>> support will end then...
>
> That doesn't mean he has to move away from it at all. It's not like his
> OS will suddenly stop working or something like that.

Of course, it will not stop working but there will no longer be any
security updates - or updates of any kind, I am not sure - so it would
not be the safest way to be connected to a network.