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Re: Update required for Debathena on PRD.MIT.EDU
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Mon Dec 13 10:20:00 2010
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
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Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 10:19:52 -0500
Cc: IS&T Athena Release Team <release-team@mit.edu>, et-net@mit.edu
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To: Adam Seering <adam@seering.org>
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Hi Adam,
At the moment, we plan to support LTS releases for at least 2.5 years (that is, an additional 6 months after the next LTS comes out). Canonical's commitment to support for LTS releases in a Desktop environment is 3 years, so we will likely begin retiring LTS releases around that time frame. However, we will always send mail to release-announce and debathena-announce before retiring support for a distribution.
-Jon
On Dec 13, 2010, at 10:04 AM, Adam Seering wrote:
> Hi,
> Thanks for the heads-up; I'd forgotten what those machines were running... Just letting you know that prd and baby-ducks have both been upgraded to Lucid.
>
> Out of curiosity, how long do you plan to provide updates for the DebAthena Lucid packages? As long as Lucid itself?
>
> Thanks,
> Adam
>
>
> On Dec 6, 2010, at 2:00 PM, Jonathan Reed wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> You are receiving this e-mail because you are listed as the Moira
>> contact for PRD.MIT.EDU.
>>
>> This machine is currently running Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty). Ubuntu 9.04 was
>> desupported by Ubuntu at the end of October. This means that your
>> workstation will no longer receive security updates or bugfixes, so we
>> recommend you upgrade your workstation to Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) as soon
>> as possible.
>>
>> ** In the future, to ensure you continue to receive important
>> information about supported versions of Debathena, please add yourself
>> to the release-announce mailing list. This list is very low-traffic,
>> with only 4-5 e-mails per year. You may subscribe to the list at:
>> https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/release-announce
>>
>> If you choose to upgrade your workstation, please note that the upgrade
>> is a two-step process: you will need to first upgrade to Ubuntu 9.10
>> (Karmic), and from there to Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid). Alternatively, you
>> may choose to backup any local data, and re-install your workstation.
>>
>> Instructions on upgrading your workstation can be found at:
>> http://kb.mit.edu/confluence/x/TgVa
>>
>> As with any software installation or upgrade, we recommend that you
>> have a recent backup of your locally-stored data before beginning the
>> upgrade process. We also recommend you fully test any important
>> software before upgrading, or consider installing a new, separate Lucid
>> workstation.
>>
>> If you have any questions, don't hesitate to send e-mail to
>> debathena@mit.edu.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Jonathan Reed IS&T Athena Release Team release-team@mit.edu
>>
>
