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Ubuntu 'Warty' to go unsupported on April 30Ubuntu 'Warty' to go unsupported on April 30Posted Mar 29, 2006 17:54 UTC (Wed) by madscientist (subscriber, #16861)In reply to: Ubuntu 'Warty' to go unsupported on April 30 by Burgundavia Parent article: Ubuntu 'Warty' to go unsupported on April 30
While it's true that the supported upgrade process is 4.10 -> 5.04 -> Dapper, it's not true that it's exactly the same thing. Requiring an extra downtime, and only a few months apart at that, is usually considered much worse than having just one downtime, even if the total amount of outage time is the same.
And, the total amount will never be the same: upgrading first to 5.04 and making that work, then upgrading later to Dapper and making that work will unquestionably take longer than doing both upgrades at the same time, and making the end result work.
That being said, I strongly doubt whether anyone who would care about these kinds of issues is running Warty. These issues matter to people in server rooms, etc. where downtime costs $$, and I can't imagine anyone running Warty (the first release of a brand new distro!) in that sort of environment.
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Ubuntu 'Warty' to go unsupported on April 30 Posted Mar 29, 2006 19:31 UTC (Wed) by vondo (guest, #256) [Link] You are certainly right about the enterprise users, but my time as a hobbyist is not worthless *to me* and going from one to the next to the next means I have to get things working again in the meantime.
Even for the home user, there is something to be said for distributions that are stable for several years at a time.
Ubuntu 'Warty' to go unsupported on April 30 Posted Mar 29, 2006 22:09 UTC (Wed) by sholden (guest, #7881) [Link] Why would you be using a distibution which has made it clear what the support windows are from day one. And in fact treats it as a feature.
If you don't like such things then don't install a distribution which advertises in big flashing lights that there's a support window and what it is.
Ubuntu 'Warty' to go unsupported on April 30 Posted Mar 29, 2006 22:19 UTC (Wed) by madscientist (subscriber, #16861) [Link] Hm. I'm pretty sure... let me check... yup! You're definitely missing the point!
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