[PLUG] Jaunty upgrade

chris (fool) mccraw gently at gmail.com
Fri Apr 24 17:18:16 UTC 2009


On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 09:58, Michael <michael at jamhome.us> wrote:
>
> John Jason Jordan wrote:
>> Don't.
>>
>> OK, I have never used KDE before. But I am now poking at it because it's all I
>> can get working. Maybe y'all KDE dudes and dudettes can convince me to keep
>> it. If Gnome won't run, to hell with it, eh?
>>
>> Meantime, the dist-upgrade to Jaunty is a pile of problems. I recommend y'all
>> hold off.
>
> Gee, I was just about to update Gutted Gutsy to Handy Hardy[1].  LTS is good
> there for another two or four years, desktop and server.

yup.  hardy is our standard platform until another LTS comes out.
which mark shuttleworth recently intimated might be 10.10 instead of
10.4 as one might have supposed:
http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/288

my colocated machine (2,312 miles from here) is still running 6.06
LTS.  i am so happy with ubuntu's promise-keeping abilities re: actual
long-term support--i don't have to fly to texas just to upgrade it.
yet =)  (long story about why the machine has to stay at its current
IP forever lest it become largely useless to me)


> [1]  I was distracted by other things and missed the EOL, last Saturday, for
> Gutsy.  Not only did they cease providing new patches, the repositories are
> offline preventing me from installing stuff that was current 10 days ago.

here's what i did when feisty fell off the support and caught me
unawares.  i presume gutsy is in the same boat--no new updates, but
old ones still available here:


deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty main universe
restricted multiverse
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-updates main universe
restricted multiverse
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-security main
universe restricted multiverse



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