On Tue 13 Feb 2018 at 14:28:51 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 13 February 2018 09:28:06 David Wright wrote: > > > On Tue 13 Feb 2018 at 11:03:29 (+0000), Adam Weremczuk wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > Hello again, > > > > > Our PCI compliance scanner (probably falsely) claims it's > > > 2018-05-01. > > > > > > The Wikipedia page: > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_version_history just says "May > > > 2018". > > > > > > Debian website: > > > > > > https://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/ > > > https://wiki.debian.org/LTS > > > > > > clearly states "end of May 2018". > > > > > > I'm treating the latter as the more reliable source. > > > > > > My related question: > > > > > > Is it likely for this date to still be moved forward or back? > > > Can it happen on a short notice (say less than a month)? > > > > No idea, but the people here may by closer to the action: > > https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Contact > > They're all open lists. > > I noted one thing on the frexian pages, the prices for funding are in > euro's. And since I run on dollars, would need an exchange rate.
USD US Dollars 0.7235642449 1.3820472847 EUR Euros 0.8866900420 1.1277898168 GBP British Pounds 1.0000000000 1.0000000000 > Those prices would appear to be aimed at a corporate setting, as opposed > to something that a retiree on SS might be able to afford, nor is the > plea taken as being aimed at me. IMO this is a mistake. I think that the LTS is aimed at people who might have invested heavily in the OS and need a longer timescale to migrate their systems. We hear about banks still running programs from the 1960s. > I am well aware > of the TANSTAAFL principle, and if the paperwork didn't drown them, > would be able to make an annual donation of perhaps $100 toward the > expenses of the LTS. Tain't much, but how many other old farts like me > would be willing to do likewise? To what end? If you're still running your lathes on wheezy, why not just isolate them from the Internet to avoid any security dangers. > On a secondary note, I see armel and armhf? listed there, but what about > arm64 since there are now, shipping versions of arm64 out in the wild > for at least a year. If that's how new they are to the world, why would people install wheezy on them? Cheers, David.
