Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it
by qznc on Saturday May 02, 2020 @12:13PM
(#23052619)
18.04 is supported for three more years. Maybe that will be my Ubuntu countdown.
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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it
by scrappyjoe on Saturday May 02, 2020 @12:25PM
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18.04 has a ten year extended security maintenance life AFAIK, so you could stretch to 2028.
Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it
by danieldk on Saturday May 02, 2020 @12:46PM
(#23052970)
Ubuntu security updates do not cover the universe repository, which contains the largest number of packages. The universe repo is 'community-supported', which means that a lot of CVEs are not fixed in practice.
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/universe.h...
So, Ubuntu's LTS support is only relevant security-wise if you mostly stick to the main repository.
Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it
by oarsinsync on Saturday May 02, 2020 @01:04PM
(#23053133)
Anyone have any idea what Debian's LTS security posture looks like? Is it also restricted to 'main' and does it also ignore 'contrib' and 'non-free'?
Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it
by danieldk on Saturday May 02, 2020 @01:16PM
(#23053244)
Similar policy:
https://www.debian.org/security/faq#contrib
However most packages in Debian are in main. AFAIK contrib is for FLOSS packages that somehow depend on packages that are not FLOSS.
Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it
by eitland on Saturday May 02, 2020 @12:39PM
(#23052901)
Wow, that's seriously impressive if true.
As many others I haven't liked vanilla Ubuntu since they swapped Gnome 2 for a (what I think is a) clone of the Mac OS interface, but my desktop still uses the Ubuntu 18.04 base system under the hood so this might come in handy for a number of people like me.