[xubuntu-users] Xubuntu Support and Extended Support Inquiry

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 2024-06-25 at 21:50 -0700, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 12:45 AM Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > do you need additional information, to the information available via the
> > Internet?
> > 
> > That's what I've found:
> > 
> > "20.04    End of Standard Support April 2025    End of Life April 2032
> >  22.04    End of Standard Support June  2027    End of Life April 2034"
> > 
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases
> > 
> I must point out that these are the support dates for Ubuntu. I don't
> believe the Xubuntu support is the same (it has always been 2 years
> less than Ubuntu IIRC).
> 
> As it says at https://xubuntu.org/download/:
> 
> "The 24.04 release, codenamed Noble Numbat, is a Long Term Support
> release and has support for 3 years. To learn more about the release,
> please refer to the release announcement, which has links to complete
> release notes as well as highlights of the improvements in the
> release."
> 
> See also https://xubuntu.org/releases/
> 
> That is not even the five years Ubuntu LTS support used to contain
> (before the recent extensions).

Hi Mark,

that's good additional information. It's not as vague as the info I
provided:

"Universe

 [...] Canonical does not provide a guarantee of regular security
 updates for software in the universe component, but will provide these
 where they are made available by the community. Users should understand
 the risk inherent in using these packages. Popular or well supported
 pieces of software will move from universe into main if they are backed
 by maintainers willing to meet the standards set by the Ubuntu team.  
[...]"

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories

The xubuntu-core package is provided by the "Universe" repository.

https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/xubuntu-core
https://packages.ubuntu.com/jammy/xubuntu-core

Regards,
Ralf