Brett Pemberton writes:
Arjen Lentz wrote:
10.04 was an LTS release and thus still supported. Well, yes, but only until April on the Desktop.
As always, let me point out that -- at least according apt -- support is on a per-package basis. "supported on the server" means they support specific packages, not whatever you happen to run on YOUR ubuntu server. Checking with "grep-aptavail -sSupported -XP foo", some random packages: Package Ubuntu Support (for lucid) ============ ========================== thunderbird 3y evolution 3y mutt 5y collectd - etckeeper 5y bzr 5y git-core 3y openssh-server 5y dropbear - lsh-server - libapache2-mod-php5 5y libapache2-mod-perl2 5y libapache2-mod-ruby - libapache2-mod-fgcid - perl 5y python 5y python3 3y ruby 5y lua5.1 18m The cron job below I created to warn me when stuff gets EOLd by Ubuntu, but I had to turn it off because it warned about so much stuff: http://cyber.com.au/~twb/snarf/vtwb