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For one user, the end is near for Ubuntu

Posted by loughkb on · 5 comments
Ravings of an old Techie; By Kevin Loughin 		Mail this story
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I was a huge ubuntu fan. They got it *right* for a few years there, from 9.10 through 10.10 which I currently run on my netbook and desktops. My son's machine is still on 10.04, and now I have a problem. It seems they just decided that 10.04 is reaching end of life and now I can't perform updates on his machine. Further, the option to easily upgrade to 10.10 is no longer available in the update manager, they want us all to move to 11.10.

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Comments (5)

HoTMetaL ·
Linux Mint is great, and I hope it gains in popularity with Ubuntu defectors. But the author is plain wrong. Ubuntu 10.04 doesn't EOL until April 2013. If this person isn't receiving updates, there are other problems going on.
lcafiero ·
I think HoTMetaL is right: 10.04 is a LTS, meaning there's a way to go before it becomes obsolete.
jdixon ·
I just checked on this 10.04 system, and there were two new updates since two days ago (tzdata and tzdata-java). So yes, I'd say there are other problems.
tracyanne ·
I'm using 10.04 (Linux Mint 9) and I get updates regularly.

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