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Ubuntu 'Warty' to go unsupported on April 30Ubuntu 'Warty' to go unsupported on April 30Posted Mar 29, 2006 23:51 UTC (Wed) by proski (subscriber, #104)In reply to: Ubuntu 'Warty' to go unsupported on April 30 by sbergman27 Parent article: Ubuntu 'Warty' to go unsupported on April 30 If you expect support, prepare to be asked to upgrade you system. It may be once in three years or once in three months. It's your choice. It may be painful either way. Actually, it should be possible to maintain a distribution forever with only minimal security fixes. But I don't think that really old software is actively tested for impact of newly discovered security threats. You think somebody is running Coverity on Linux 2.0.x? You probably shouldn't connect such system to any networks.
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Ubuntu 'Warty' to go unsupported on April 30 Posted Mar 30, 2006 6:11 UTC (Thu) by sbergman27 (subscriber, #10767) [Link] Well, my distro of choice, CentOS, gives me a great deal of flexibility along these lines. I have the option to upgrade every 18 months. But I don't have to upgrade more frequently than every 7 years. It's all my choice, and I can make that choice on a client by client, server by server basis.
I'm sure that Debian is a good distro.
But Debian proponents tend to have a very irritating habit of jumping into discussions with some one-liner that implies that Debian is Shangri-La.
And it just ain't so.
Ubuntu 'Warty' to go unsupported on April 30 Posted Mar 30, 2006 20:17 UTC (Thu) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link] Actually someone pointed out that upgrading Ubuntu (a word that was missing in that post) is not a reinstall. Rather it is a dist-upgrade in the good old Debian tradition.
BTW: it is actually RedHat[tm] that does most of the maintenance work of CentOS. And I must say I quite pity anybody still using the ancient RHEL/CentOS 2.x (basically equivalent to RH7.x).
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