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Canonical extends Ubuntu LTS support again - if you pay (www.theregister.com)

submitted 5 days ago by throws_lemy@reddthat.com to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world -5 points 5 days ago (4 children)

This is insane for a number of reasons. Who the fuck would want to use a 15 year old release?

[–] superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

As long as it secure, lots of businesses. If it works and you dont need the new features of future releases and just want reliability.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 10 points 5 days ago

Yup. We use software that depends on 20.04, but we do have an upgrade path. We are moving to 22.04 as those projects wrap up. We can't go to 24.04 yet because it's not certified compatible and doesn't work.

[–] Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I decommissioned multiple 2008R2 hosts in the past couple of years and at least one 2008.

If the business had it their way they would keep using them forever because they don't want to pay any money or figure out a solution that lets them access historical data on a modern platform..

I'm sure i'm not alone. I'm positive older hosts are running out there at all kinds of orgs large and small. This isn't just a windows problem either. The weakest link is still probably some refrigeration controller with an internet connection.

[–] Peffse@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago (2 children)

You should have seen the panic back in 2017 when my team found a cluster of Server 2003 running at a hospital.

The client thought it was fine.

[–] Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 9 points 5 days ago

Let me guess

"It's still running fine! I don't see the problem." -Business

"What's it do?"-IT Consultant

"Oh, it's our ERP. Every worker here is connected to it via RDP including the folks working from home, and we don't even have VPN! It's just a little slow. Can you make it faster?"-Business

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 1 points 4 days ago

Reminds me of when a client walked in to the help desk I work at the other day with a 2015 Macbook Pro still running El Capitan. I upgraded her to Monterrey - it’s been EOL for a year, but it’s better than sending her away with El Capitan. Monterrey is the best I can do since OCLP would be outside our policy.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 days ago

my guess is someone big wants it and offered to pay enough to fund it, so canonical is just opening up the same support timeframe to anyone willing cough-up some cash.

[–] lordnikon@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

Somebody that deployed SAP or EMR and woukd pay anything to not redeploy that stack.