Ubuntu 6.06 LTS ("Dapper Drake") end of life

Posted Jun 3, 2011 0:19 UTC (Fri) by ewan (guest, #5533)
In reply to: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS ("Dapper Drake") end of life by pr1268
Parent article: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS ("Dapper Drake") end of life

Ubuntu's support includes the whole distro

The whole server distro; no desktop stuff. So that's no X, no Gnome, no OpenOffice, no Firefox etc. That makes it rather a lot smaller.

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS ("Dapper Drake") end of life

Posted Jun 3, 2011 8:38 UTC (Fri) by Karellen (subscriber, #67644) [Link] (2 responses)

Yeah, that means it only includes Apache, lighthttpd, squid, GCC (C, C++, Objective-C, Java, Fortran), GDB, Valgrind, Eclipse?, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, PostgreSQL, MySQL, CVS, SVN, Arch, Darcs, Hg, Monotone, vi, emacs, jed, nano, ssh(d), plus at least another 5,000 packages.

Yeah, sure that's smaller than Windows XP. /sarcasm

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS ("Dapper Drake") end of life

Posted Jun 3, 2011 11:50 UTC (Fri) by pboddie (guest, #50784) [Link]

The point about the desktop stuff still stands, though. For 8.04, which does offer long-term support for the *Ubuntu* desktop stuff as far as I am aware, the same thing does not apply for Kubuntu. In other words, the KDE packages don't enjoy that same level of support: something I found out when reporting bugs; not something that you can readily find out when browsing the Ubuntu Web sites (at least last time I checked).

Oh, and I once tried upgrading an installation from 6.06 LTS to 8.04 LTS (having installed from 6.06 media which was the only thing I had lying around), and after being instructed to use some Ubuntu-specific tool (apt-get not being enough, apparently), the thing decided to give up on the idea. That would worry me if I were still using 6.06.

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS ("Dapper Drake") end of life

Posted Jun 3, 2011 23:41 UTC (Fri) by chad.netzer (subscriber, #4257) [Link]

He clearly meant "rather a lot smaller than the Desktop version", or "rather a lot smaller than it otherwise would be", not "rather a lot smaller than XP".