Comments on: Ubuntu Global Jam: We came, we saw, we jammed. http://decafbad.net/2012/03/06/ubuntu-global-jam-we-came-we-saw-we-jammed/ More than you cared to know Wed, 03 Apr 2013 16:57:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: craig http://decafbad.net/2012/03/06/ubuntu-global-jam-we-came-we-saw-we-jammed/#comment-2689 craig Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:48:11 +0000 http://decafbad.net/?p=2886#comment-2689 Actually, the LTS (10.04) is supported for 3 years. 9.04 is unfortunately considered a development release, which gets 18 months of support.

If you’re willing to make the move to 10.04, you’ll still be Ubuntu support for another year before you have to make the switch to a more recent LTS (Which is coming out in April).

Here’s the wiki with the support diagram for each release:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS

]]> By: suitti http://decafbad.net/2012/03/06/ubuntu-global-jam-we-came-we-saw-we-jammed/#comment-2687 suitti Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:42:11 +0000 http://decafbad.net/?p=2886#comment-2687 I’m running 9.04 still. In 9.04, there’s a ton of eye candy, but you can get to a command line fairly quickly. You can also configure the menus to add what you want. I tried 10.something, and it was awful. I tried 11.something, and it was unusable. It should not take ten mouse clicks to get a fricking xterm up. I tried installing 9.04 on a new box, but the repositories are gone. You can cut yourself a CD, but then what? You can’t even get the nVidia drivers. Useless. But i have two 64 bit boxen with nVidia screens. So i cloned the existing 9.04 with dd to the other box. It’s an interim measure until i find a distribution that keeps support longer than a couple years. It takes nearly that long to get everything i want on a box. Ubuntu is dead. It didn’t need competition to kill it. It did it all by itself.

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