> I've already told him (off the list) to upgrade to Ubuntu 14.04. > Ubuntu 12.04 which is an LTS distro is hopeless behind in drivers and > their usb_modeswitch > version is two and a half years old. > The Ubuntu maintainers seems to have their own definition of LTS.
Not as back as RHEL5 (2.6.18 based, extended support through to 2020 :-)