These earlier versions of Ubuntu have been maintained for five years under the Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) provided by Canonical to the organization, and now they provide ten years of support for paying users.Īs noted, in addition to security patches, distributions will also receive updates to the system kernel, system packages, and so on, which will make it possible to keep the OS up to date.įor your information, Ubuntu’s subsequent LTS release, specifically 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) and 20.04 (Focal Fossa), are presently supported for ten several years, that is up to April 2028 and April 2030 respectively.

Ubuntu 14.04 users will receive operating system updates until April 2024, and Ubuntu 16.04 until April 2026.Īccording to Canonical, this lifecycle extension enables organizations to balance their infrastructure upgrade costs, by giving them additional time to implement their upgrade plan. There was good news today for all Ubuntu lovers looking jittery at their aging Ubuntu boxes. If no profile folder is specified as an argument, UMS will use ~/.config/UMS as the profile folder.Canonical has announced that Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) have had their lifespan extended to 10 years. Someone that understand bash will have to help figure out how to correct this using the bash script. UMS will expect that folder to be writable and to find UMS.conf and WEB.conf there. The path to the profile folder can be specified as a command line argument when launching UMS with 'profile='. The UMS profile folder is used for much more than just the configuration files, files are created there as needed and using /etc for this sounds like a complete mess to me. The user running UMS needs to have read permissions to every UMS file and write permission to the profile folder. I saw from the instructions used that the configuration files were put in /etc, I'm not sure that's a good idea to be honest, but since bash is greek to me I can't really figure out what's done. Getting UMS running should be as simple as running UMS.sh in the extracted folder though, but to get things working properly you need to install some extra packages and populate your profile folder with the configuration files. Linux is a nightmare since nothing is standardized so we do it like most software 'the Linux way' which means to let the users figure out how to set it up in their environment. I don't know anything about configuring it as a daemon on Linux (that is what the instructions you liked to basicly do).

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