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

[Bobbie Sellers]

On 3/2/19 7:16 AM, Rick Moen wrote:
> 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 apparently that information is a little out of date:  As I noticed on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

         I think if you dig a bit you might find that 10 years of 
support is limited to
business customers.   I know I thought that sounded good and someone 
(not you?)
pointed out that it was limited to presumably paying customers,

     Bobbie
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