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0 pointskev0096d ago0 comments

Except their LTS is a lie or maybe plausible deniability for businesses that DGAF. They have no idea what they are doing with backports and lack thereof. And if you aren't paying you aren't even receiving many of the updates.

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bboozzoo5d ago

> And if you aren't paying you aren't even receiving many of the updates.

Are you sure you didn't mean RedHat? Last I checked there's no requirement to pay anything in order to use an LTS release of Ubuntu. Even if you go with Pro to get those extra years of Extended Support (to make it ~12 years?) you still get up to 5 licenses for personal use. No money asked, no *BS* subscription model. Isn't that more than enough any non-commercial user?

kev009OP5d ago

Read https://ubuntu.com/security/esm carefully. The chance of running everything out of 'main' is close to zero. I am shocked by how little people understand this.

bboozzoo5d ago

Main is all you need to set up a working system and deploy services. Much like BaseOS in RHEL you get full support for those packages for 5+5 years. With snaps you effectively get rolling releases of LXD, microk8s, openstack, docker and other relevant things. What else do you need? Seriously, how come this isn't enough for a non commercial user?

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bboozzoo5d ago

> And if you aren't paying you aren't even receiving many of the updates.

kev009OP5d ago

Read https://ubuntu.com/security/esm carefully. The chance of running everything out of 'main' is close to zero. I am shocked by how little people understand this.

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