Hardware Enablement Stack notice?

[Jim Byrnes]

On 08/20/2016 10:58 AM, Peter Silva wrote:
> 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...
>

No. It references 14.04. Stack ended on 2016/08/04.
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/1404_HWE_EOL

Regrds, Jim

> 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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