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Ubuntu 16.10 Reaches End of Life (softpedia.com)
prisoninmate shares a report from Softpedia: Today, July 20, 2017, is the last day when the Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) was supported by Canonical as the operating system now reached end of life, and it will no longer receive security and software updates. Dubbed by Canonical and Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth as the Yakkety Yak, Ubuntu 16.10 was launched on October 13, 2016, and it was a short-lived release that only received nine (9) months of support through kernel updates, bug fixes, and security patches for various components. Starting today, you should no longer use Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) on your personal computer, even if it's up-to-date. Why? Because, in time, it will become vulnerable to all sort of attacks as Canonical won't provide security and kernel updates for this release. Therefore, all users are urged to upgrade to Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty Zapus) immediately using the instructions here.
Why? Because, in time, it will become vulnerable to all sort of attacks
This is misleading. The software is already vulnerable to all possible attacks. Over time, existing vulnerabilities might be exploited. Software does not become vulnerable because it is not 'supported'. That's not to say there is a risk, but the risk is not directly that the software is not supported.
Install a new OS without regression testing the apps you need to run on it? Really?
I don't respond to AC's.
And it isn't journalctl's job to truncate log lines to the width of the terminal. Yet it does.
The output is paged through less by default, and long lines are "truncated" to screen width. The hidden part can be viewed by using the left-arrow and right-arrow keys.. You could also use 'alias' to change the default behavior, or use other methods. As usual when people hate on systemd, you are complaining about systemd because you don't understand it and couldn't be bothered to learn what you could have learned with 2 minutes of googling. It literally would have taken less time to learn about it than complain about it.
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
It literally would have taken less time to learn about it than complain about it.
The default in basically everything is to show full lines. But systemd wants to be different. Why? Because Poettering thinks Unix was done all wrong, and he's smarter than everyone else, and changing default behaviors on the console to be more like a GUI is a great idea. That's because he's a fucking child. His development stopped at maybe age twelve. It's all what he wants and what he thinks, and everyone else is dumber than him, right? Except a review of his code proves that's false. He's actually a shit coder with shit ideas and you're defending them because you're a shit person.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Careful - that's far more explicit than what Lennart screamed was a "death threat" a few years back.
He takes comments like yours seriously. It's apparently OK for him to describe a fantasy about people like you collecting bitcoins to pay a hitman to go after him (and for him to say it "really happened" - yeah right) but he's got too thin a skin to allow you a fantasy.
What I'm trying to say is "jokes" like that just reinforce his "us and them" attitude, where everyone who isn't his fanboy is apparently not worth listening to because they apparently want to be violent towards him.