Comments on: Goodbye Gutsy

By: kees

kees — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:19:19 +0000

Gutsy will be moved to old-releases.ubuntu.com at any time. There is no specific schedule, but if you still need to upgrade, I would recommend doing ASAP if for no other reason than there will be no security support any more.

By: Robert Lindgren

Robert Lindgren — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:04:25 +0000

Do you by any chance know when the Gutsy repos will be removed from the mirrors? I have a couple of server to upgrade still and since it’s so much harder when Gutsy is gone from the mirrors, I thought I’d ask, I have not been able to find that info anywhere..

By: Dustin Kirkland

Dustin Kirkland — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 01:40:19 +0000

Farewell Feisty? (in retrospect)

:-Dustin

By: oliver

oliver — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:37:54 +0000

Heh – I’ll probably install Jaunty in a new partition and just copy the user files, and then edit Grub config when the new system is completely configured.

By: kees

kees — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:53:12 +0000

Since one can’t upgrade from Gutsy to Jaunty, it doesn’t matter much practically. If a person isn’t using LTS releases, generally they upgrade Ubuntu every 6 months. For your situation, I’d recommend upgrading to Hardy, then Intrepid, then Jaunty, one upgrade a week. :)

By: oliver

oliver — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 09:13:36 +0000

I do wonder why Gutsys support period was not chosen to overlap with the Jaunty release date. I still have one machine running Gutsy, and now have the choice between running for some weeks without security upgrades (until Jaunty is stable enough), or switching to Intrepid which itself will be EOL in a year already, or switching to Hardy which has longer support but doesn’t really offer much over Gutsy feature-wise or bugfixing-wise. None of these choices seem particularly tempting, and so I’m really wondering why there wasn’t created an “inviting” way to switch to Jaunty some weeks after its release…