<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">2016-01-10 15:24 GMT+01:00 Paul Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paul@mad-scientist.net" target="_blank">paul@mad-scientist.net</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Sat, 2016-01-09 at 19:03 -0600, Jim Byrnes wrote:<br>
> I'm not sure what you mean here about my system not working. 12.04 was<br>
> running fine but I thought it was getting close to end of life given<br>
> that 14.04 has been out for a while and 16.04 was in the wings.<br>
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</span>12.04 and 14.04 are "Long Term Support" (LTS) releases. They're<br>
supported for five years from release on the desktop. So, 12.04 will go<br>
end-of-life in April 2017.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, but software in the 12.04 repos are too old to be useful already in some cases (depending on what you need to do, of course).</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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See <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases</a><br>
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