Alec Wright wrote: > On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 16:32 +0000, Alex Jones wrote: > >> Something else that we need to remember... >> >> If we have a system with Warty on, and it's nagging its owner to >> upgrade, the only system it can upgrade to is Breezy, which itself might >> be out of support. If such a case arises, there's no way to get that >> Warty machine upgraded. >> -- >> Alex Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> >> > Even when a version is not supported, the repositories are still there, > but not updated. > Let's go forward a year. The current release is Feisty+1 LTS (Something > Iguana?). Microsoft has been taken over by Steve Ballmer, and is > therefore dying. He plans to release a "Windows Developers, Developers, > Developers, Developers Edition". Person X is using Warty, having ignored > the bubbles for a year (Breezy is now Unsupported, and Warty and Hoary > have been unsupported for a year and 6 months respectively). He can > upgrade to Hoary, because the Repositories will still be open, but it > will be very insecure, having not received security updates, or updates > of any sort, for 6 months. Then he can upgrade to Breezy, then Dapper. > The "Your system is unsupported" thing should go, and an "A newer > version of Ubuntu is available." and so he can choose to upgrade again. > There should also be a popup saying "Your system will only be supported > for 6 more months.", with a link to a web page explaining why using an > unsupported release is bad (eg security problems, older packages etc). > He should then be urged to upgrade. > > Throughout the process, the user should be notified of his 3 options: > * Upgrade form the web > * Upgrade from a CD > * Do a complete Reinstall (Easier than upgrading through 8 releases!) > > > --- > Alec Wright > Now suppose person X has only 64 MB or RAM on this particular machine (the minimum requirement for Warty).
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