"Support" was Re: Paravirtualizing Hardy Heron server

[Scott Kitterman]

On Wednesday 30 April 2008 14:03, Neal McBurnett wrote:
> 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.

I would assume.

Yes.  That's mostly the kind of support I meant, not primarily that answering 
your questions kind.  The motu-swat team is part of the community support I 
described earlier.

Scott K