why do you exclude those w/o a hell phone

[Robert Heller]

I run Armbian on my Banana Pi M64.  The Banana Pi have a Wiki for their boards 
with download links (image files for uSD cards).  I have successfully updated 
and upgraded over the years I have had that little board.  

At Thu, 15 Jan 2026 08:19:11 +1100 kauer at biplane.com.au, "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> 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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