Quoting Noel Butler <noel.butler@ausics.net>:
No... Really, I've got lots of machines on older distros (3+ years) that are just plain stable and just plain work.
until they are owned.
Not a one has been owned yet. And why would they be since there are regular security updates, and of course out-of-band security updates for critical issues.
I have never ran debian, so I won't spin any rot that debian people do.
errrrr you seem to think the world shines out of ubuntu's ass, but dont
Nope. You seem to have no clue what you are talking about.
realise that ubnuntu follows the same policies and principles of debian,
I've never run ubuntu, nor debian. Stop assuming stupid assumptions.
even to the point that the vast majority of the ubuntu package maintainers , maintain the debian versions.
Since ubuntu is a debian derivative, this would be normal. I don't run either, so not a problem.
Anyway, this is way off topic, so end of thread for me...
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