Re: Beginning of the End for Wheezy [sigh!]
On Tue, 19 Apr 2016, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> On 04/16/2016 03:27 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> >
> > Much to my regret (and others, too, I'm sure), yesterday, on 15
> > April 2016, the beginning of the end began for Wheezy. Google, as
> > announced months ago, finally ceased support for its browser on
> > Wheezy. I double checked just to be sure, and in the course of
> > that check also discovered "official" Debian support for Wheezy
> > will cease in a little over a week on 26 April 2016 -- just 3 years
> > after its release. However, it will automatically enter LTS until
> > 2018 at which time all support ceases and EOL "officially" occurs.
> >
> > Well, at least I have time to look for an alternative. Maybe,
> > Devuan will be viable by then, but I doubt it. Or Debian will
> > offer a choice of inits as a standard option during installs on
> > future releases, but I very much doubt it.
> >
> > B
>
> Ubuntu using upstart,
> trusty 14.04 LTS Release Date 2014-04-17 End Of Life 2019-04
> precise 12.04 LTS Release Date 2012-04-26 End Of Life 2017-04
Thanks, but unfortunately, I don't like Ubuntu. Never have. From the
first time I tested it years ago, it always rubbed me the wrong way.
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