[ale] LTS doesn't always mean LTS

[James Sumners]

Nope. I meant it just as I wrote it. It had not other meaning. But you
can read it however you like. I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 12:42 PM, Jerald Sheets <questy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Except the little statement “people with a clue”… implying anyone using the
> product must NOT have a clue.  It is indeed insulting.
>
>
> On Apr 25, 2016, at 12:26 PM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I wasn't. Except to the distro.
>
> On Monday, April 25, 2016, Todor Fassl <fassl.tod at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> No need to be insulting, guy.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 04/25/2016 08:21 AM, James Sumners wrote:
>>>
>>> Why Ubuntu is used by people with a clue is beyond me. Well, except to
>>> throw it at a family member who doesn't have one. But this even makes
>>> that seem like a silly notion. There are better distributions out
>>> there. Some even forked from Ubuntu.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 9:02 AM, DJ-Pfulio <djpfulio at jdpfu.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> In Ubuntu LTS, there's an issue with many packages not receiving
>>>> security updates.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/ubuntu-lts-many-vulnerabilities-despite-long-term-support.385386/
>>>> ====
>>>> $ ubuntu-support-status --show-unsupported
>>>> Support status summary of 'lubuntu':
>>>>
>>>> You have 196 packages (8.0%) supported until February 2015 (9m)
>>>> You have 12 packages (0.5%) supported until January 2017 (9m)
>>>> You have 1679 packages (68.8%) supported until May 2019 (5y)
>>>> You have 148 packages (6.1%) supported until May 2017 (3y)
>>>>
>>>> You have 101 packages (4.1%) that can not/no-longer be downloaded
>>>> You have 304 packages (12.5%) that are unsupported
>>>>
>>>> No longer downloadable:
>>>>    <insert huge-ass-list> .......
>>>>
>>>> Unsupported:
>>>>   <insert even-huger-huge-ass-list> .......
>>>> ====
>>>> Saw this and freaked out a little! 196 packages have lost support
>>>> already on a
>>>> 14.04 desktop.  Most are java and perl helpers. The perl stuff doesn't
>>>> bother
>>>> me, since I use perl-brew for all my real work in perl (never depend on
>>>> the
>>>> system perl stuff). But there are some ssh2, TLS, and qemu in that list
>>>> too!
>>>>
>>>>      Supported until February 2015 (9m):
>>>>      chromium-browser chromium-browser-l10n expect .... qemu-common
>>>> libsqlite3-dev libssh2-1 libssh2-1-dev libssl-dev libgnutls-dev
>>>> libgnutls28
>>>> libgnutlsxx27
>>>>
>>>> A non-supported browser is a non-starter for me. This is on my primary
>>>> desktop!
>>>> Must do something about that, even if it means removal of the browser.
>>>>
>>>> to see which installed pkgs have and do not have support on your boxes.
>>>> It basically comes down to which repository the packages are in.  Just
>>>> something
>>>> more to be aware about.
>>>>
>>>> Someone did the same thing for Debian and claimed that all the package
>>>> security
>>>> fixes were back ported to the "supported" releases.
>>>>
>>>> Lucy (Canonical), you got some 'splaning to do.
>>>>
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