Hardware Enablement Stack notice?

[Peter Silva]

14.04.4 ended 2016/08/04,
14.04.5 ends in  2019  ...

All it means is that you have to stay patched to be supported.


On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 12:03 PM, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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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