Hardware Enablement Stack notice?

[Peter Silva]

it is 1204_HWE_EOL...   you are running 1404, so no relation of the
announcement to what you are running at all.
1404_HWE_EOL is likely in 2018 or 2019...


On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 11:39 AM, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
> On 08/20/2016 09:08 AM, Peter Silva wrote:
>>
>> hardware enablement is about ensuring you can run an older OS with
>> newer hardware... for a vm it is likely irrelevant (ok... improved
>> drivers might make it run better... but it´s generally a stretch.)
>>
>
> I asked about VBox because every time it get an update to VBox it mentions
> compiling the kernel.
>
> Regards,  Jim
>
>
>> On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 9:55 AM, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> I've been running LTS releases since 10.04 and this is the first one of
>>> these notices I have received.  At first I was confused about it but I
>>> read
>>> the wiki and some other links and I have a better understanding now.
>>>
>>> I am running VirtualBox 5.0.26 which Synaptic shows in Local/Contrib.
>>> How will running this update effect my VBox install?
>>>
>>> Regards,  Jim
>>>
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