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["Reece R. Pollack" <reece@xxxxxxx>]

On 6/14/19 2:27 PM, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
> On 2019-06-14 14:12, jp charras wrote:
> > Le 14/06/2019 à 19:49, Jon Evans a écrit :
> > > +1
> > > Speaking of that page on the website, I think we can remove Ubuntu 
> > > 16.04
> > > and 17.10 from the table now that they are unsupported.
> >
> > Be careful:
> > Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is supported until 2021.
> > Only Ubuntu 14.04 LTS release support is now end of life (although I
> > still have a few updates)
>
> Ubuntu provides paid Extended Security Maintenance through 2021. Their 
> standard support has lapsed (which was the date I picked when writing 
> the support end date on that website).

Ubuntu LTS releases receive "Standard Support" for 5 years. Extended 
Security Maintenance provides security patches for a further 3 years.

https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle

The 16.04 "Xenial Xerus" release Standard Support extends until April 2021.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

> I would propose that we do not officially support the Linuxes past 
> their standard support window.  The hardware requirements on Linux are 
> not prohibitive for upgrading and cost is not an issue.

That seems reasonable to me. Once a release falls out of the Standard 
Support period, many of the package repository mirrors purge the 
packages from their systems. This makes it very difficult to maintain 
such a system.

-Reece