why do you exclude those w/o a hell phone

[Karl Auer]

On Wed, 2026-01-14 at 13:38 -0500, gene heskett wrote:
> I just wasted over an hour trying to send a msg via the web page,
> trying to get around the demand for a hell fone number.

Who were you trying to contact?

> have NDU for a hell fone


NDU?

> 1. Do you have an LTS that will boot on arm64's like the bananapi-m5?

My experience with small systems like that has been that there are
special distros (like raspbian etc), and the right place to find such
would probably be forums dedicated to those little systems.

If there is a distro for your hardware available from Canonical, it
would be visible on or via their releases page, though you might need
to do a bit of spelunking:

https://www.releases.ubuntu.com/
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/

Most of the releases under the second link are not supported by
Canonical themselves. A quick look shows that there are certainly arm64
versions of things.

> 2. How much would you charge me for going over the 5 machine limit?

This sounds like you are talking about Ubuntu Pro. You don't have to
use Ubuntu Pro to use Ubuntu. Unless you do in fact need something that
is only in Ubuntu Pro, you can just use plain ol' Ubuntu. Otherwise,
the pricing is here:

https://ubuntu.com/pricing/pro
Looks like it'll cost you $25 per year per additional workstation, but
I have to admit it is not clear whether if you go to non-personal
pricing you then have to pay for ALL workstations, or just any extras
above 5.

Caveat: I don't know much about Ubuntu Pro, and nothing at all about
the bananapi-m5.

Best of luck!

Regards, K.

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