Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Ubuntu 16.10 Reaches End of Life (softpedia.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the time-to-upgrade dept.

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.

2 of 164 comments (clear)

  1. Re:non-remarkable non-LTS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I have been trying not to care about this init stuff. Through a series of upgrades I've ended up with one machine still stuck with upstart and another on systemd, and I didn't want to get involved in this discussion. I figured I'd just adapt to whatever.

    Let's just say I have reached the point of caring. :-/

    One small thing to start: how the fuck is it not the default behaviour of journalctl to linewrap so you can actually see all the errors?

    I am no sysadmin. I've been using Linux for about 24 years, day-in, day-out, in one capacity or another (back from the 0.99pl12 days, stack of floppy disks, 486 with 8 megs of RAM and a tiny hard disk) and I'm still confident and happy saying I am no sysadmin. I accept my limits; I know I am a developer just *using* it with admittedly pretty significant day-to-day acquired knowledge, I'm not operating it as a sysadmin with studied expertise. I look like an expert to others; I don't feel like an expert.

    So I expected some relearning and some frustration, but fuck me I didn't expect to feel patronised.

  2. Rolling Release by Philotomy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This kind of thing is one reason I switched to a rolling release distro (Arch, in my case). I won't be going back.