End of Life

[LinkBot]

Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn) reaches End of Life on July 23, 2015: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ub...ly/000197.html

[whatthefunk]

Guess its time to make the leap to Plasma.

[Qqmike]

yeah, or a fall-back to 14.04

[whatthefunk]

Took the leap. In general, I like it. Its nice looking, responsive, and a lot of the little things I disliked about the KDE 4 series have been fixed. Its got a lot of bugs though... Simple things, like keyboard shortcuts, that worked perfectly in older KDE versions fail. It more than a little annoying.

[Wheel Inventor]

or

or install something like the UU...

[tomcloyd]

I'm still waiting for 15.04 to have a functioning system tray. In my laptop, I still have no Dropbox icon. I just don't understand why this was considered OK, by those who released this OS. I can run it from the command line, but I don't really get the same information.

[Simon]

Correct me, if I am wrong. This just means those with the Unicorn won't get spammed with updates and system upgrades. The whole thing makes it sound like, "On July 23 this year, if you still run Unicorn, your system will shut down, the internet will explode, small pets will get sick, your monitor will flash blue and green causing nearby furniture to discolor, and small children in your household may turn cannibalistic. Thank you on behalf of Team Unicorn, it has been a pleasure serving you."

It is NOT the end of the world...

[whatthefunk]

If you want security updates, you need to do something though.

[Snowhog]

From Ubuntu:

Release end of life

When an Ubuntu release reaches its “end of life” it receives no further maintenance updates, including critical security upgrades. It is highly recommended that you upgrade to a recent version of Ubuntu at this point.

[Simon]

...or you stop visiting the torrent and porn sites.

[whatthefunk]

Security vulnerabilities could be exploited by anybody, not just obviously bad websites.

[Simon]

You know I was just having fun with the whole "End of Life" as we know it thing. I am sticking with my Kubuntu 14.04 no need to push it to the edge all the time. Well actually recent events has me with dual boot OS. I am also running 12.04 as an emergency back up on a separate partition. Nasty things can happen with or without "security updates" especially when I start adding crap I don't need.

At the clinic we are running Debian with the classic Gnome interface. I think Frank did a recent upgrade. But here and on my laptop I am sticking with the trusty Kubuntu. I wonder... what they will do when they hit the end of the alphabet? Start over at A? Let's see, W is this October, X and Y are 2016, and Z is April 2017. I do wish all the people who choose to stick with the Unicorn well. But we all know, it will end in tears, because they are extinct.

[Qqmike]

Simon, I was also using a similar strategy (and thinking): run 14.04, but keep 12.04 updates as well. I've since dropped the 12.04, but it is a good idea to keep a couple LTSs running. Mint KDE, btw, is now basing its latest on the current Ubuntu LTS. Thus, for example, the new Mint 17.1/.2 are based on Ubuntu 14.04. I'm posting a thing on Mint now (within 30 minutes), you can see it there and get the links.