[sf-lug] updates Re: SF-LUG Sunday March 3, 2019 meeting notice

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Bobbie Sellers (bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com):

>     Ubuntu and all the variants have a LTS version of 16.04.6 now
> out at Distrowatch.
>     Let me know if you want any of these distributions.

As a reminder, *buntu 16.04 LTS 'Xenial Xerus' was the April 2016
long-term support release (as indicated in the release number), with
support until April 2021 for Ubuntu Desktop, Server, Core, and Kylin, 
and until April 2019 for all other flavours (Lubuntu, Xubuntu,
Lubuntu...).  I.e., support expires next month for those.

Meanwhile the _current_ long-term support release, 18.04 LTS 'Bionic
Beaver', has support for _5 years until April 2023_ for the same main
flavours, and for 3 years until April 2021 for the other flavours.

I'm sure some folks have a reason for installing the last-but-one LTS
release with very limited future support, but I'm not sure what that
reason is.


Bobbie, do you just basically download all new stuff as releases are
covered by Distrowatch?  Just curious.