Question about Ubuntu support

[Rashkae]

On 2020-05-28 11:13 p.m., Hello wrote:
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> hello,
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> There may be an straightforward explanation for this, I don't know.
> I plan on installing ubuntu 18.04.x  LTS.
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> Links 1 & 2 below say ubuntu is supported for 5
> years (from release date).
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> But ubuntu spins/flavours, e.g. links 2 ,3
> and 4 below  say that one only gets 3 years of support.
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> Any extra information I may be missing would
> be helpful in discrepancy in years of support.
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Clear as mud, ain't it?.  I don't think there a definite list of what
packages will be patched past the 3 years.  But aside from the glaringly
obvious, Firefox, chome/chromium, Thunderbird... does it really matter?

The Network services packages are the same, regardless of what 'spin'
you install, so things like sshd, apache, glibc, and the kernel itself,
will be kept patched if necessary.

If you're really concerned about all the dozens of theoretical local
bugs that can be used to overflow a buffer in your KDE Image libraries,
or whatever, you should probably update to the next LTS once deemed stable.