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Hi Philip,
On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 06:45:01PM +0000, Philip Storry wrote:
> So I guess I'll be upgrading my VPS to 22.04 sometime next year, so that I
> don't get hit by the end of standard support. I don't want to find myself
> missing updates for things I know I'm using...
I don't think you have "standard security support" on anything in
"universe", only in "main" - ever. As far as I understand Ubuntu
security updates for packages in "universe" are best effort by the
community, not by the Ubuntu Security Team.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/FAQ
or have I misunderstood?
> I doubt many servers are using ONLY main, unless they're very
> simple.
In my experience very few people understand about "main" vs
"universe" and "multiverse". I might be one of them.
Once again I will say that CentOS's straightforward 10 year support
promise was one of the reasons why people liked it. But
understandably that was a lot of work for Red Hat.
Cheers,
Andy
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