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

[Rick Moen]

Updating something I said yesterday:

> 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,
> Kubuntu...).  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.

That's what it said on the Ubuntu Wiki page about 18.04 LTS, but
apparently that information is a little out of date:  As I noticed on
Wikipedia[1], Canonical, Ltd. CEO Mark Shuttlework announced this past
November that Ubuntu 18.04 LTS support will run a full ten years, to
April 2028.[2]


[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_version_history#Ubuntu_18.04_LTS_(Bionic_Beaver)

[2] https://www.serverwatch.com/server-news/canonical-extends-ubuntu-18.04-lts-linux-support-to-10-years.html