[PLUG] Ubuntu Long Term Support?

Marvin Kosmal mkosmal at gmail.com
Wed Jul 30 03:31:09 UTC 2014


The Hardware upgrade killed me..

I am currently running on my old hd and old version of Ubuntu.

Thinking of installing something else.

Maybe Slackware..

Marvin



On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Dick Steffens <dick at dicksteffens.com>
wrote:

> I just logged in to one of my Ubuntu 12.04 machines via ssl. As part of
> the process the system gave me the following notice:
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Your current Hardware Enablement Stack (HWE) is going out of support
> on 2014-08-07.  After this date security updates for critical parts (kernel
> and graphics stack) of your system will no longer be available.
>
> For more information, please see:
> http://wiki.ubuntu.com/1204_HWE_EOL
>
> To upgrade to a supported (or longer supported) configuration:
>
> * Upgrade from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS by running:
> sudo do-release-upgrade
>
> OR
>
> * Install a newer HWE version by running:
> sudo apt-get install
>
> and reboot your system.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> So, if I don't upgrade from 12.04.4 LTS I won't get kernel or graphics
> stack security upgrades. I thought the point of an LTS was that it would
> be supported, in the case of 12.04, into 2017. Now I have to do
> something that, to me, seems scary. I noticed a line on the Update
> Manager window that says, "New hardware support is available
> [Install]" and Googled it. At:
>
>
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/496881/update-manager-message-new-hardware-support-is-available
>
> the last comment gives me reason to be concerned. I could ignore the
> requirement, but I wouldn't get kernel security upgrades. That seems
> scary, too.
>
> Has anyone else running 12.04 had any trouble with installing the new
> hardware support?
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dick Steffens
>
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