Should do-release-upgrade upgrade from 18.04 LTS to 20.04 yet?

[J. Paul Bissonnette]

Thanks to David Malia <althor at ksu.edu>
jpilot is up and running. 
I guess my trusty Palm Tungsten TX is not going to be added to the land
fill along with all those last weeks toys. 
It is much more trustworthy and reliable than those Ad-droid toys. :) 
  




On Fri, 28 Aug 2020 10:56:09 +0200
Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Aug 2020 at 04:55, J. Paul Bissonnette
> <jpaulb at eastlink.ca> wrote:
> >
> > Before you upgrade see what you are going to lose. I have been using
> > jpilot for ages; now it is dropped from Unbuntu 2020. there is no
> > way I am junking the Palm Pilot. I am looking for a distro that
> > supports it.  
> 
> I do have 2 Palm Pilots but I have not used them since the 20th
> century; I even gave up my beloved Psion devices more than a decade
> ago, and Symbian about 5y later.
> 
> But I have looked for you.
> 
> Here is where JPilot is developed:
> 
> https://github.com/juddmon/jpilot/releases
> 
> As you can see, there has been no new release in 10 years and 6
> months.
> 
> How long do you think a distribution can keep software that is no
> longer maintained by the person who wrote it?
> 
> Have you tried just installing it yourself?
>