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18.04 has a ten year extended security maintenance life AFAIK, so you could stretch to 2028.
by scrappyjoe 6y ago
18.04 has a ten year extended security maintenance life AFAIK, so you could stretch to 2028.
- eitland 6y agoWow, 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.
- danieldk 6y agoUbuntu 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.html 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.
- oarsinsync 6y agoAnyone 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'?
- danieldk 6y agoSimilar policy: https://www.debian.org/security/faq#contrib 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.