Is 12.04 upgradable?

[Robert Heller]

At Fri, 8 Jan 2021 19:34:20 +0100 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 8 Jan 2021 at 18:20, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> >
> > I don't have MS-Windows.
> 
> So?
> 
> I do not understand. One minute, you're willing to go to extreme
> lengths -- e.g. trying to install a 7-LTS-versions-old release and
> then do, what, 5 system upgrades to get it to vaguely current... the
> next, you won't try a simple free tool that might make life easier for
> you and save hours of work?

By the time I heard about the tool, I had managed to install 16.04 server.

> 
> Why? What's the big difference? I don't understand.
> 
> So you don't have Windows. I said *I* didn't get it to work on Linux;
> maybe *you* would. Won't you even _try_? Ralph recently posted that he
> uses the same tool; why not ask him for his experiences? Why not just
> read the (very short, clear) website and try it for yourself? What
> would it cost you? A lot less time than going 12.04 → 14.04 → 16.04 →
> 18.04, surely?
> 
> Or if it doesn't work under Linux, you could download a Windows ISO
> from MS, run it in a VM and use that. Win10 is a free download and
> runs well without activation, serial number, licensing, anything.
> Certainly long enough to write a USB. You have already mentioned VMs
> so presumably you have a hypervisor.
> 
> Or you could download a ready-installed VM. MS "XP Mode" for Win7 is a
> fully-installed XP system in a VirtualPC VM. Works fine in VirtualBox;

I don't have VirtualBox installed and it probably won't work in CentOS 6.

> I've mentioned it before, and I have written a set of instructions how
> to get it working:
> https://www.theregister.com/Print/2014/04/10/how_to_run_xp_on_new_windows/
> 
> Pretty sure I've linked this here before.
> 

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