Timeline for answer to How does LTS combine with HWE out of support by Rinzwind
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| Jul 21, 2014 at 8:55 | vote | accept | mikuszefski | ||
| Jul 21, 2014 at 8:55 | comment | added | mikuszefski |
So if I log in by shell all the "you are running out of support... upgrade to 14.04 or at least sudo apt- get install ...trusty stuff" is unnecessarily scary. It should at most state: On Aug 7 we will do some special update you might want to do in advance by doing this and that. Hence, I don't get the necessity of the message in the first place. Guess I'll check what happens on Aug 7. I'll get prompted then (hopefully).
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| Jul 21, 2014 at 8:20 | comment | added | Rinzwind | @mikuszefski "Is the update done automatically after August 7" depends on your update routine (if manual... it will prompt for it). "and is it only now that I have to use command line?" yes seems to be the answer :) | |
| Jul 21, 2014 at 8:18 | comment | added | mikuszefski | Reading carefully the statement of the mailing list the question would be: Is the update done automatically after August 7 and is it only now that I have to use command line? That would render it somewhat LTS again, meaning the normal user does not have to bother with the details. | |
| Jul 21, 2014 at 7:41 | comment | added | mikuszefski | I read the HWE_EOL wiki. Yes it is somewhat logical. But now imagine someone changing to Ubuntu this spring, as XP was running out. You go to the Ubuntu (download) page. At that time you still got 12.04 LTS. And that is the point. You got the impression you get LTS until 2017 for the version you download. Here they do not bother the normal user with 12.04.1 or 12.04.4 and kernel versions. So where did I miss the small print here, downloading an LTS version. | |
| Jul 21, 2014 at 7:23 | history | answered | Rinzwind | CC BY-SA 3.0 |