8.04 still a fine version

[Preston Hagar]

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 2:06 AM, Mike McMullin <mwmcmlln at mnsi.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 18:23 -0700, Johnneylee Rollins wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Karl Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On 04/06/2010 07:00 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote:
>> >> On Tue, 6 Apr 2010, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>>      I am writing this on Thunderbird on my old 8.04 LTS which
>> >>> needed updates, that were a new kernel and some fix on
>> >>> Thunderbird and like that. It works fine and is a fine system
>> >>> to keep working. The others from 8.04 and 10.04 are not as
>> >>> interesting and I will let them die.
>> >>>
>> >> What will you do when security fixes stop coming in, what, a year?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >         Just keep using it. The password and name keeps Linux 1000
>> > times more secure than Windows!
>> >
>>
>> That method might work, if you stay off the internet with it.
>> Security updates are rather important things.
>
>  But aren't LTS version supported for 5 years?  That would EOL 8.04 at
> the 13.04 stage.
>
>

Desktop LTS is 3 years, server LTS is 5 years.  I am pretty sure that
Karl is talking about his desktop 8.04 LTS, so it would end in 11.04.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS

I use an Ubuntu 8.04 desktop (it is actually Xubuntu) for my primary
work machine.  I have stayed with the LTS because I depend on this
machine to get my work done, so I would rather have stable then latest
and greatest.  That being said, however, I am planning to upgrade to
10.04 LTS when it is released since I would really like newer versions
of a few programs (namely firefox) without having to resort to nightly
builds, extra ppas, or other random work-arounds.

Just my 2 cents.

Preston