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Re: [DRAFT 1] [debathena-announce] End of life announcement for Ubuntu
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Evan Broder)
Tue Apr 7 20:47:35 2009
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Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:47:05 -0400
From: Evan Broder <broder@MIT.EDU>
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I'd like comments on this soon - the e-mail should go out by Friday.
- Evan
Evan Broder wrote:
> Reply-To: debathena@mit.edu
> To: debathena-announce@mit.edu
>
> Hi everyone -
> On April 18, 2009, Ubuntu will stop supporting Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy
> Gibbon. As we have with previous Ubuntu releases, we will be
> desupporting Debathena on Gutsy at the same time. Any remaining users of
> Gutsy are encouraged to upgrade by that date, as Ubuntu typically
> removes releases from their apt repositories when a release reaches its
> end of life, making it difficult to upgrade to a newer release.
>
> Ubuntu only supports direct upgrades from Gutsy to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
> Hardy. Instructions for that process are available at
> <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HardyUpgrades>. If you would like to
> upgrade to Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid, you should first upgrade to Hardy and
> then upgrade to Intrepid.
>
> We are also taking this opportunity to end Debathena support for Ubuntu
> 6.06 LTS Dapper Drake. Dapper is the oldest release that we currently
> support by almost a year, and it is showing its age. It lacks many
> features which have made Debathena functionality easy to develop, or in
> some cases, possible to develop. Furthermore, to the best of our
> knowledge, nobody has run Debathena on Dapper since September.
> Therefore, we will be ending support for Debathena Dapper on April 18th,
> at the same time as Gutsy.
>
> At this point, Ubuntu only currently supports upgrading from Dapper to
> Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Hardy. Instructions for upgrading Dapper can also be
> found at <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HardyUpgrades>.
>
> As always feel free to contact the Debathena team at debathena@mit.edu
> if you have any questions, comments, or concerns.
>
> Thanks,
> - Evan
> for the SIPB Debathena Team
>
>
>
