Canonical Expands Total Coverage for Ubuntu Lts Releases to 15 Years
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Canonical expands Ubuntu LTS support to 15 years with a new Legacy add-on, generating positive feedback from the community who appreciate the extended coverage and compare it favorably to other distributions like Debian.
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pm2222
about 2 months ago
15 years sound great. Just want to mention that Ubuntu rootfs tar ball is really small about 20m or so. Debian is north of 250m.
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