<div dir="ltr"><div>Three years is very good. At this moment I'm writing this email using my "safe machine" with Xubuntu 12.04 LTS<br></div><div>Two years have passed and I will switch to 14.04 LTS. I don't need support for the 12.04 any longer.<br>
</div><div>And I believe this is the case of many users. And many more upgrade every 6 months (like I do in other machines).<br></div><div>And also before 12.04 only the server versions had 5 years support and it was very good that way.<br>
</div><div>I really believe that only a server need a 5 year support.<br><br></div><div>Keep up the good work everyone,<br></div><div>zakzor<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 1:23 PM, PK <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pliniusminor@gmail.com" target="_blank">pliniusminor@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Although Xubuntu 14.04 will "only" have LTS support for three years, it'll be safe enough to use for five years, anyway....<br>
<br>Only the specific Xubuntu packages (mainly the Xfce ones) will receive "merely" three years of support, but the other packages (the kernel, Firefox, Libre Office, Thunderbird, Flash Player, etc.etc.) will have the full five years support. Because they come from the generic Ubuntu repositories for Ubuntu 14.04.<br>
<br></div>It's highly unlikely that attackers will target the Xfce packages of Xubuntu 14.04 after three years. Attackers usually go for the widely used stuff, like the mainstream applications.<br><br></div>So: no worries. Using Xubuntu 14.04 for five years instead of three, is only a slight risk. Quite acceptable. :-)<br>
<br></div>Regards, Pjotr.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-02-23 13:01 GMT+01:00 Pasi Lallinaho <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pasi@shimmerproject.org" target="_blank">pasi@shimmerproject.org</a>></span>:<div>
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contributors, the team doesn't wish to offer support for longer
than 3 years. The Ubuntu core packages are supported for 5 years
as usually.<br>
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The other flavors announce their LTS status and lenght on their
own mailing lists or other outlets, you should follow them for
that information.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Pasi<div><div><br>
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<div><b>From: </b> "Tiago Ribeiro";<a href="mailto:zakzor@gmail.com" target="_blank"><zakzor@gmail.com></a>;</div>
<div><b>Date: </b> Sat, Feb 22, 2014 00:37 AM</div>
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<div>Great news.<br>
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I wasn't able to test any alpha build but will install the
beta1 in my netbook (February 27th, if I'm correct)<br>
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Best regards to all that thrive to make Xubuntu even better.<br>
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zakzor<br>
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Lallinaho <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pasi@shimmerproject.org" target="_blank">pasi@shimmerproject.org</a>></span>
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quick note,<br>
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Xubuntu 14.04 will be an LTS release with 3 years support.<br>
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For reference, the official confirmation is at:<br>
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<a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2014-February/002784.html" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2014-February/002784.html</a><br>
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