"Support" was Re: Paravirtualizing Hardy Heron server

[Neal McBurnett]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 01:36:44PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> >I don't know if there is a way of setting apt just to use the packages with
> >5 years of support, but my guess is that there isn't.
> 
> There isn't.  Do keep in mind that "Support" in this context is commercial 
> support provided by Canonical under their standard support contracts.  The 
> rest of this distro is not "Unsupported".  It is supported by the Ubuntu 
> community.  Other companies may provide commercial support on other terms.  
> I've not looked into it.

I thought support was more about a committment to security fixes and
SRUs and things like that.  E.g. even if Canonical went away for some
unforseen reason, the money dedicated to the Ubuntu Foundation would,
I assume, be used for security patches among other things.

 http://www.ubuntu.com/news/UbuntuFoundation

 "In order to support the use of free software on database and other
 servers, we will be offering security support for the Ubuntu base and
 major server components for a full five years", said Matt Zimmerman,
 CTO of the Ubuntu project

 ...The extended service support for Ubuntu version 6.04 will remain free
 of charge, under the same terms as the support currently provided to
 every release of Ubuntu.

I think it would help to have this made clearer in the sources.list
file and on the website.  E.g. mentioning motu-swat in those contexts.

Neal McBurnett                 http://mcburnett.org/neal/