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[Arpad Barta <barta.arpad@xxxxxxxxx>]

I could not agree more.

Many things have to be carefully considered before we do anything.

1. The OS (I use the expression OS because in this way I can cover any kind
of Ubuntu flavors or it`s derivatives)  that we want to use as our primary
solution for the "XP" problem needs to be part of the LTS releases. It is
pointless to replace an "in place" system with another one which will have
the same problem in less than a year.

2. The OS needs to be light weight and fast even on old computers. However
if we look at the LTS releases 10.04 is almost out of its support time so
at the moment 12.04 the only version which can be taken in consideration. I
do know that this project aims at 14.04,  but with all of these changes
around the Ubuntu GUI my worry is that we simple don`t know how will it
turn out.

3. We must paint a realistic picture. We all know that migrating from
Windows is not easy, during the last few years things got a lot better and
less painful, but the app development is always forward thinking and tend
to forget the problems from the past. What I mean is that we also have to
take into considerations those old problems and other applications such as
wine and other emulators. Offering better and newer native alternatives is
always the right way to go, but there are gaps which are simply not covered
well enough in older OSs.

 Hardware Limitation => LTS Limitation => Application Limitation...



On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 5:17 AM, Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> On 05/02/2013 12:53 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote:
>
> > I'm now typing this email from Lubuntu 10.04:
>
> > Okay, we all know that Lubuntu 10.04 wasn't LTS.
>
> > Is this a secure system? is this an LTS system? what are the risks of
> > running this?
>
> Because you do not already have the security and system administration
> expertise and experience to KNOW the answers, then for you, the answers
> to your three questions are:
>
>  (1) "NO, this is not a sufficiently secure system for you".
>
>  (2) "NO, this is not a supported LTS release".
>
>  (3) "The main risks are not getting updated software, and so getting
>      hacked or infected or otherwise running malicious code".
>
> That's as simple a set of answers as I can give.
>
> Jonathan
>
> (NOTE: I am typing this on a Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS machine, my primary
> Ubuntu desktop at home, which I tried and failed to upgrade to 12.04
> recently -- I need to fix that ASAP!).
>
>
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