Kevin Beaumont
Dee in Kanazawa đ¯đĩâŠī¸@GossiTheDog wait, is this an issue?
I have a server running Ubuntu 14... that's alright surely? It said LTS on it when I installed it.
@GossiTheDog actually, it's OK... I checked, it's a
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS so this is good... obviously Ubuntu 14 would be bad, but 12 is a good vintage.
hazelnot 
@dee @GossiTheDog didn't support for that end 7 years ago? đ
From what I can tell even LTS releases are only supported for 5 years đ
@hazelnot @GossiTheDog what does it even mean to be "supported" is a good philosophical question.
it's OK, this isn't a critical component in my little infrastructure... I've multiple copies of the same machine for resilience
@dee @GossiTheDog idk, I usually take it to mean "you should stop using this cause you can't get any updates for it anymore so it's unsafe and if you ask for help we'll just tell you to fuck off" lol
@hazelnot @GossiTheDog this is what a well configured firewall is for đ
@dee @GossiTheDog fair, the only thing I know how to do with a firewall is allow ports like on a router đ¤ˇââī¸
I don't really appreciate the emojis implying you're laughing at me for not knowing as much as you about the topic and asking a genuine question though so maybe we should just end this conversation here >.>
@hazelnot @GossiTheDog not laughing at you... laughing at myself for truly running old servers in production and overly relying on primitive firewalls for protection.
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Andrew@hazelnot @dee @GossiTheDog If you want to pay Canonical money, they'll support an LTS system for up to 12 years. Worth noting that they extended this from 10 years earlier this year to allow 14.04 to still be supported.
@puck @hazelnot @GossiTheDog I'm still at the limit đđĸ
I can't upgrade though, I'm running a version of python from 2012, and a version of Django from 2012 đ
ftg@hazelnot @dee @GossiTheDog
At least 12.04 ships with a kernel newer than 2.4.
I see stuff manufactured and shipped in 2024 with that on occasion.
At least 12.04 ships with a kernel newer than 2.4.
I see stuff manufactured and shipped in 2024 with that on occasion.