[PLUG] Ubuntu Long Term Support?

[Tim Bruce - PLUG]

On Tue, July 29, 2014 17:51, Tim Bruce - PLUG wrote:
>
> On Tue, July 29, 2014 17:26, Dick Steffens wrote:
>> On 07/29/2014 05:03 PM, Mike Witt wrote:
>>> On 07/29/2014 04:58:35 PM, Mike Witt wrote:
>>>> I'm also running Ubuntu 12.04, and I'm now confused and/or concerned
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> On 07/29/2014 04:37:49 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
>>>>> I just logged in to one of my Ubuntu 12.04 machines via ssl. As part
>>> Oops, I just noticed you said ssl not ssh.
>>
>> And that was my bad. I do use ssh to log in remotely.
>>
>> Have you tried:
>>
>> ~$ hwe-support-status --verbose
>>
>> That gives me essentially the same message. (Not identical, possibly
>> because it is yet a different version of 12.04.)
>>
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>>
>> Dick Steffens
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>
> This link might shed some light on your question.
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/1204_HWE_EOL
>
>
> I run Ubuntu v12.04 on my systems at home and haven't seen this, which is
> why I did a quick google.
>
> Tim
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And to follow-up on my posting and re-reading the website I listed, it
appears that if you install from a point release ISO *OR* install certain
packages that have specific hardware support, you "convert" your system to
a more "limited" upgrade path from standard LTS (those are my words).

If you can upgrade to v14.04, you should be ok for at least another ~24
months (only because you'll get the 14.04.1 release that was just pushed
out in the last few days).

Tim
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