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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/2/19 8:36 AM, Rick Moen wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Quoting Bobbie Sellers (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com">bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com</a>):
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">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,
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You're probably right.
Oddly enough, I did try to find something more specific and definitive
than a Shuttleworth keynote remark, and in particular tried to find
something on Ubuntu's own Web site stating a support policy for 18.04
LTS longer than 5 years for _anyone_ -- and found nothing. Until just now.
The one bit that suggests the extra five years will be available to
paying customers only is on <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.ubuntu.com/esm">https://www.ubuntu.com/esm</a> .
Wow, they sure could be a lot clearer. ;->
Honestly, though, I really scratch my head at the notion of wanting to
run antique software versions with only bugfix patches for ten years.
It seems a really bizarre thing to consider desirable, at all -- at
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Yes to personal users/volunteer administrators it may seem
bizarre but<br>
to business users it seems like a good way to save time and thus
money. <br>
We see that business users are the slowest to adopt new versions
of <br>
that ever colorful Microsoft Program launcher. Some are still using
XP<br>
and hated to give up 95.<br>
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As for me I run a rolling release and am up to Linux 4.20.13
yesterday.<br>
And if you want to split hairs, the base of the system is from
2017.03 if not<br>
earlier. It would be even earlier but KDE's Plasma 5 necessitated a
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fresh install as it was incompatible with KDE's Plasma 4. I hope<br>
they hold off on such radical changes in the near future. <br>
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Gnome 3+ is now tied to systemd by the way, not that I ever<br>
thought it was what I wanted to run. I tried out the Gnome 2.x<br>
under Mandriva for 2 weeks more or less and was very disappointed<br>
by its handling of many areas when compared with KDE 3.x.<br>
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bliss<br>
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