[LUAU] Ubuntu and updates

[J.K.Roby]

Yes,it is "You are using Ubuntu 10.10- the Maverick Meerkat - released 
in October 2010 and supported until April 2012."
Is upgrade available for 10.1 to 10.04 or does it require a rebuild?


On 09/05/2012 10:43 AM, Jeff Mings wrote:
> FYI - if you like the look of 10.1, you can use 10.04, which is one of 
> the LTS releases.  The LTS releases have very long support lives - 
> thru April 2013 for desktop and April 2015 for the server version of 
> 10.04.  Ubuntu 12.04 is an LTS release, which is why it's such a big 
> deal.
>
>
> -Jeff
>
> On 09/05/2012 10:35 AM, J.K.Roby wrote:
>> I'm running Ubuntu 10.1 and the updates stopped long ago.The upside 
>> is the install functions perfectly.
>> I very much like the clean desktop as opposed to the new 12.04 and am 
>> looking at this MATE overlay.
>> Annoying that Ubuntu updates so frequently,and I read something that 
>> the Debian folks also give Shuttleworth grief for that. I was offered 
>> an update to 11.x ages ago but can't get anything better than a 
>> crippled 3G connect out here in the woods.Seems a complete backup up 
>> and rebuild is all that is available. I get my ISOs from a friends 
>> DSL. Aloha LUAU people.
>>
>> On 09/05/2012 10:25 AM, Jeff Mings wrote:
>>> Ubuntu/HP?  You mean an HP product with Ubuntu?  Which Ubuntu 
>>> version number and desktop would that be?
>>>
>>> I'm guessing that Synaptic, the GUI DEB package manager, 
>>> disappeared.  If all else fails, aptitude is the best console / 
>>> terminal-based package manager I've seen.  You can do _everything_ 
>>> from that, with a menu-driven interface that doesn't take a lot of 
>>> time to get used to.  I really wish the RPM/YUM package family under 
>>> Redhat / CentOS had something as excellent as aptitude.
>>>
>>> Good Luck,
>>> -Jeff
>>>
>>> On 09/05/2012 10:17 AM, Al Plant wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Aloha,
>>>>
>>>> Seeing the post from Jeff reminded me to ask this.
>>>>
>>>> I have a net book with Ubuntu/HP on it. (All of the rest of my 
>>>> boxes run FreeBSD) And the last time the updates ran part of the 
>>>> menu vanished to an auto select feature.
>>>>
>>>> Also I no longer have any flash that works for this unit either. 
>>>> Tried to update but doesnt finish install.
>>>>
>>>> Does any one have a suggestion to any link to a how to make things 
>>>> install on the version of Ubuntu that is on the machine? Or do I 
>>>> have to upgrade the version?
>>>>
>>>> Mahalo...
>>>>
>>>> ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii -  Phone:  808-284-2740
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