Ubuntu 19.10 set to reach end-of-life this month

[Karlston]

Ubuntu 19.10 set to reach end-of-life this month

Canonical is set to pull the plug on Ubuntu 19.10 ‘Eoan Ermine’ some time this month. If previous release cycles are anything to go by, support could end anywhere between mid- to late-July so that gives you about a week to get ready to upgrade. If you do not upgrade, your system will not receive any new updates which could leave it open to exploitation.

 

Canonical, helpfully, has put together a simple guide which will help you move from Ubuntu 19.10 to the recently released Ubuntu 20.04, while Ubuntu upgrades tend to be safe, be sure to heed the warning at the start of the tutorial about backing up your files as things could mess up, although it’s unlikely.

 

If you’d prefer to do a clean installation of Ubuntu or another Linux distribution, you can download the relevant ISO, write it to a USB and perform a clean install. Again, you’ll need to back up the data you want to keep because a clean installation will erase the hard drive. It is, however, recommended if you’ve messed up your current install or just want the vanilla Ubuntu 20.04 experience without any residue from Ubuntu 19.10.

 

Once you jump to the latest version of Ubuntu, you will benefit from a new version of GNOME, a newer Linux kernel and other updated packages. The latest version of Ubuntu will receive updates for the next five years until April 2025.

 

 

Ubuntu 19.10 set to reach end-of-life this month

 

[steven36]

Ubuntu 19.10  is  a short term release as a  non-LTS release it gets 9 months of on-going app updates and security patches. I'm still  on  Ubuntu 18.04   not the official  flavor  gnome that gets 5 years  a misconception about not using  the official spin is  security updates run out after  3 and half  years  but it's not true you still get those for 5 years because there supplied by Ubuntu itself   , what  don't you get is updates to  your flavor's file managers, and desktop environment . Even on  a non  official  flavor you still get 70% of all updates for

 

When i check my system it say

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5 years  You have 1823 packages (70.8%) supported until April 2023 (Canonical - 5y)
You have 330 packages (12.8%) supported until April 2021 (Community - 3y)

You have 380 packages (14.8%) that are unsupported

 

I have more packages i installed  from   PPAS , DEBs  etc  that Ubuntu don't  support that i keep updates going myself than  my flavor provides  me with because i done a custom i don't   install every thing they have   even .