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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