[ale] upgrading my obsolete Ubuntu 11.04 to What?

James Sumners james.sumners at gmail.com
Fri Jan 4 11:07:53 EST 2013


Riiiight, because creating deb packages is simple. Be realistic.
Unless you've gone the LFS route, this isn't feasible with _any_
distribution.

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Edward Holcroft <eholcroft at mkainc.com> wrote:
> And my (poorly made) point is that it doesn't. All Ubuntu support means is
> that Canonical is rolling the debs for you. As long as you have the Linux
> source code at your disposal, you can keep patching your system for as long
> as you have an itch to scratch. In perpetuity, if that's what you want.



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