[clug] End-of-life

[Rodney Peters]

Hi Brian,

I'm not an Ubuntu user but I am informed that Ubuntu (now, if not 
earlier) has a mechanism for upgrading an installed version to the next 
release.  It would be more or less essential to go incrementally ie 
12.04 > 12.10 > 13.04 etc, in order to avoid clashes between 
incompatible configs.

http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/ubuntu/releases/ does not have all 
the intermediate releases, but you might get by.

Cheers,

Rod

On 18/04/17 10:05, Bob Edwards via linux wrote:
> Hi Brian,
>
> Further to Neil's comments, it really depends what you use it for and
> how "connected" it is. The main reason for wanting to run a "supported"
> version of your O/S is to get future security-related updates, of which
> there will likely be many.
>
> The main security "attack vector" will be the Internet. A secondary
> vector will be copying files etc. from random USB and other media.
>
> If your machine is behind a (supported) firewall etc. (and has no WiFi
> connections of its own) then it should be fine.
>
> If it's a server, offering Internet-facing services with encryption
> etc., then you should seriously consider upgrading at least the O/S
> to Ubuntu 14.04 or 16.04.
>
> If you use it as a desktop for browsing the web etc., again, you should
> upgrade it, or disable flash, java, javascript etc. etc.
>
> Just some thoughts.
>
> Bob Edwards.
>
> On 16/04/17 18:12, Neil Pickford via linux wrote:
>> Hello Brian
>>
>> Really depends how paranoid you want to be.
>>
>> I have a Linux 2.2 system still running 24x7 live on the net originally
>> installed in 2000 - Yes that's 17 years almost non stop.
>>
>> It really depends what you are doing with it and how much of a honey pot
>> it is.
>>
>> The ASD security people who write the ISM will advise turning it off
>> immediately, even though they don't do that to their own equipment.
>>
>> NeilP
>>
>> On 16/04/2017 12:20 AM, Bryan Kilgallin via linux wrote:
>>> My old PC runs Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS Precise Pangolin, whose end of life
>>> date is April 28, 2017.
>>>
>>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases
>>>
>>> How urgently do I need to discontinue using it?
>>
>>
>
>