I wasn't. Except to the distro. <span></span><br><br>On Monday, April 25, 2016, Todor Fassl <<a href="mailto:fassl.tod@gmail.com">fassl.tod@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">No need to be insulting, guy.<br>
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On 04/25/2016 08:21 AM, James Sumners wrote:<br>
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Why Ubuntu is used by people with a clue is beyond me. Well, except to<br>
throw it at a family member who doesn't have one. But this even makes<br>
that seem like a silly notion. There are better distributions out<br>
there. Some even forked from Ubuntu.<br>
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On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 9:02 AM, DJ-Pfulio <<a>djpfulio@jdpfu.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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In Ubuntu LTS, there's an issue with many packages not receiving security updates.<br>
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<a href="https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/ubuntu-lts-many-vulnerabilities-despite-long-term-support.385386/" target="_blank">https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/ubuntu-lts-many-vulnerabilities-despite-long-term-support.385386/</a><br>
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$ ubuntu-support-status --show-unsupported<br>
Support status summary of 'lubuntu':<br>
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You have 196 packages (8.0%) supported until February 2015 (9m)<br>
You have 12 packages (0.5%) supported until January 2017 (9m)<br>
You have 1679 packages (68.8%) supported until May 2019 (5y)<br>
You have 148 packages (6.1%) supported until May 2017 (3y)<br>
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You have 101 packages (4.1%) that can not/no-longer be downloaded<br>
You have 304 packages (12.5%) that are unsupported<br>
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No longer downloadable:<br>
<insert huge-ass-list> .......<br>
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Unsupported:<br>
<insert even-huger-huge-ass-list> .......<br>
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Saw this and freaked out a little! 196 packages have lost support already on a<br>
14.04 desktop. Most are java and perl helpers. The perl stuff doesn't bother<br>
me, since I use perl-brew for all my real work in perl (never depend on the<br>
system perl stuff). But there are some ssh2, TLS, and qemu in that list too!<br>
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Supported until February 2015 (9m):<br>
chromium-browser chromium-browser-l10n expect .... qemu-common<br>
libsqlite3-dev libssh2-1 libssh2-1-dev libssl-dev libgnutls-dev libgnutls28<br>
libgnutlsxx27<br>
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A non-supported browser is a non-starter for me. This is on my primary desktop!<br>
Must do something about that, even if it means removal of the browser.<br>
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to see which installed pkgs have and do not have support on your boxes.<br>
It basically comes down to which repository the packages are in. Just something<br>
more to be aware about.<br>
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Someone did the same thing for Debian and claimed that all the package security<br>
fixes were back ported to the "supported" releases.<br>
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Lucy (Canonical), you got some 'splaning to do.<br>
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