Ubuntu Pro Legacy offers 15 years of LTS support
Posted by commodore512@reddit | linux | View on Reddit | 14 comments
Posted by commodore512@reddit | linux | View on Reddit | 14 comments
ghostery2134@reddit
users gonna upgrade every one third of a century
linuxhacker01@reddit
This is just another paid option lol
commodore512@reddit (OP)
It's free for up to 5 machines for individuals.
safrax@reddit
"Support". I worked at a place that used Ubuntu's 10 year offering and what they supported was a very narrow list of things. I considered it an expensive joke. I suspect there's even more caveats with the 15 year version of their support product.
I just can't consider anything Canonical puts out as enterprise grade, they're a clown show of a company. Hell their interview process for senior level positions asks you what grades you got in high school and what accomplishments you made in high school. How the hell is that even relevant for a senior level position?
purplemagecat@reddit
Can you give me some examples of things they didn’t support ?
safrax@reddit
I can't remember the specifics, their public documentation is a bit squirrely about what they do and don't support as well. "Common" software like MariaDB, PostgreSQL, PHP, etc, usually got ok-ish support. Anything outside of those common packages was out of scope, so if you were using, let's say something uncommon like quagga on 14.04, that more than likely wouldn't get any kind of support. (Not that I'd expect any support since Quagga has been dead since around 2017-2018, just using it as an example.).
Who knows what unreported CVEs nation states are holding close to their chest for customers who purchase support options like this. It's much easier to find CVEs in older software that didn't have as much security awareness as we do now. It's a reason why I consider these excessively long support contracts to be reckless and dangerous.
The TL;DR: Don't purchase their extended support options unless you fit into their guaranteed supported software model, and even then I'd be extremely wary.
SweetBeanBread@reddit
I want 20 years LTS. Will that be Ubuntu Legend? or Ubuntu Pro Legacy Extreme?
UninterestingDrivel@reddit
Only 15 years? Does this mean my 8.04 CDs are now out of support
VillageBC@reddit
Well... I had systems that 15 years of support would have been useful for. Some places are very slow movers.
hurtfulthingsourway@reddit
ATMs? i think they need something like 15 to 20 years of support.
nou_spiro@reddit
26 letters in alphabet, two letter per year so after 13 years it loop around so if you Ubuntu codename is using same letter than current version you should start thinking about upgrading :)
DarthPneumono@reddit
Please stop giving my users reasons not to upgrade :(
Kolawa@reddit
enterprise updating their os challenge
gtrash81@reddit
Sometime because the consultant promises the customer.
Had a discussion with a consultant and told him, that SLES11 will be EoL in 2-3 years.
His answer: "Don't care, customer pays for 15 years."
Systems I have to use are updated, currently PoC for EL10.