Was there a 6.10 release of Edubuntu

J. Scott Edwards wowidb.org at gmail.com
Sun Apr 20 13:41:12 UTC 2008


Sorry to have to post yet again, but now it appears that the
http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ web site which I was just using a week
or two ago is now gone.  Has it been deleted as well?

On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 7:32 AM, J. Scott Edwards <wowidb.org at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm sorry, I knew that it was no longer supported, I was not aware
>  that the old ones were being deleted.  And then I made the mistake of
>  searching for the wrong file name (odd that it found a match at all).
>  I did another search and found edubuntu 6.10 .iso files all over the
>  place.  Sorry about the extra traffic.
>
>
>
>  On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 7:17 AM, Stéphane Graber <stgraber at ubuntu.com> wrote:
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>  >  J. Scott Edwards wrote:
>  >  > When I started saving the checksums for all of the Ubuntu releases I
>  >  > had no idea how difficult (or at least time consuming) it was going to
>  >  > be.  I have been getting most of my information from the
>  >  > http://cdimages.ubuntu.com/ website.  I think I have gotten all of the
>  >  > Ubuntu releases up through 6.06.2
>  >  > (http://www.worldwide-database.org/cgi-bin/list_files.cgi?md5), so I
>  >  > was just starting on 6.10 and I looked at
>  >  > http://cdimages.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/ and it doesn't list an
>  >  > Edubuntu 6.10 release:
>  >  >
>  >  > Index of /edubuntu/releases
>  >  >
>  >  >     * Parent Directory
>  >  >     * 6.06.1/
>  >  >     * 6.06/
>  >  >     * 7.04/
>  >  >     * 7.10/
>  >  >     * 8.04/
>  >  >     * dapper/
>  >  >     * edgy/
>  >  >     * feisty/
>  >  >     * gutsy/
>  >  >     * hardy/
>  >  >
>  >  > However, just to be thorough I googled for edubuntu-6.10-i386.iso and
>  >  > it found one web page
>  >  > http://www.yinfor.com/freethinking/archives/2006/10/ubuntu610.html (a
>  >  > blog) that listed it.  I can't really read this page, but it has a
>  >  > link to a torrent file for it.  I am not sure what to make of this at
>  >  > all.  I find it hard to believe that if it actually existed that there
>  >  > is only one web page on the entire Internet that still has a reference
>  >  > to it?!?  So can anyone confirm that there was actually an Edubuntu
>  >  > 6.10 release or if it was really skipped?
>  >  >
>  >  > Thanks for any information
>  >  >   -Scott
>  >  >
>  >
>  >  Edubuntu 6.10 is no longer supported, it's the reason why you can't find
>  >  it on the mirrors.
>  >  6.06 is still here because it's a LTS release, all previous releases
>  >  have been removed as their 18 months support period was over.
>  >
>  >  Stéphane
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