Will Xubuntu 14.04 LTS Receive Security Support for 5 Years?

**mikodo** · June 10th, 2015

Upon closer review, what I had said was just, not accurate. I thought it best to delete.

**deadflowr** · June 10th, 2015

Unsupported means indeterminate.
Meaning the developers for which packages listed as unsupported never filled in the support length for those packages.
Meaning they can be either dead packages or packages that those maintainers will actually be supporting forever...

**monkeybrain20122** · June 10th, 2015

Originally Posted by deadflowr

ubuntu-support-status --show-all

I forget if it is part of a certain package or not...

I don't know, it shows that I have a whole bunch of "unsupported packages" including things I have installed straight out of the repo like compiz, ccsm, apache etc. It seems either I misunderstand the meaning of supported packages or that this is broken in 15.04.

**Bucky Ball** · June 10th, 2015

Originally Posted by monkeybrain20122

I don't know, it shows that I have a whole bunch of "unsupported packages" including things I have installed straight out of the repo like compiz, ccsm, apache etc.

Same.

**monkeybrain20122** · June 10th, 2015

Just saw deadflower's post above mine.

That explains it.

**perknh** · June 11th, 2015

Originally Posted by deadflowr

ubuntu-support-status --show-all

I forget if it is part of a certain package or not...

Hello deadflowr,

Now that's a gem of a command --thank you!

@night_sky2

You also need to take into consideration the kernel version. Since you installed 14.04.2, you have kernel v.3.16 which is only supported for 18 months. --night_sky2

This is will definitely keep in mind, thank you. That computer, running the 14.04.2 version of Xubuntu, is running pretty much like new. Xubuntu has transformed that old computer. It now runs as though it has found the fountain of youth!

...in Firefox or use Flashblock but it doesn't guarantee that the outdated plugin cannot be use for malicious attacks --night_sky2

I'm sure this is not a perfect solution but it is the most realistic solution I can find to help minimize risks in the environment where that old, but revived, computer dwells. I have now installed Flashblock, and have made sure that security updates are now downloaded and installed automatically.

Thank you, everyone, for all of the help and ideas I have found here,

perknh