Upgrade from 8.04 to 10.04 LTS (BORKED)

[Christopher Chan]

Liam Proven wrote:
> On 13 September 2010 08:09, Christopher Chan
> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
>>> When you look at the last URL, where is it mentioned that 10.04.1 is LTS
>>> - and what is 10.10 supposed to be?
>>>
>> 10.04 = Lucid, an LTS release that will get some attention with respects
>> to security holes for the next 1,1/2 or more years after its release.
>>
>> 10.10 = Merkat, a non LTS release that will get zero attention six
>> months after its release
> 
> Normal releases do get support & upgrades for /eighteen/ months,

Oh, it was eighteen? I guess that is six months more than Fedora. 
Upgrades? Did you say upgrades? Ha! Security and bug fixes yes but 
upgrades? Nada, zip, zilch.


> rather than 6. For LTS releases, it's 3y on the desktop and 5y on the
> server, I believe, but I've never kept an LTS release around that
> long.

Of course not. You won't be able to live without the upgrades. I, on the 
other hand, can. Actually, I had to fix kopete to get it to work with 
Yahoo! messaging.


> 
> But yes, after the next normal release is out, usually the main focus
> of the MOTU's attention shifts to it...
> 

It's always the new toy, never about dealing with the insufficiencies of 
stable releases. I guess Lucid is here so I'll clam up.