Timeline for Reminder: Questions on EOL releases are not off-topic simply because they're EOL releases
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:25 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Apr 14, 2015 at 4:41 | vote | accept | muru | ||
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| Apr 14, 2015 at 0:30 | comment | added | Panther | Well, nobody is going to fix an old unsupported kernel . If you file a bug report upstream with kernel.org the very first thing they will ask you is if the problem persists with the latest kernel. So what good does using a broken, unsupported kernel do ? I can not confirm or deny hardware issues other then searching a hardware list. I have found over the years , trying to make unsupported hardware functional takes a lot of work (yes, i have written and debugs kernel modules ;) . If I were to try to help with a custom kernel the first thing i would do is upgrade to the newest possible kernel. | |
| Apr 13, 2015 at 20:56 | answer | added | OliMod | timeline score: 7 | |
| Apr 13, 2015 at 20:04 | comment | added | muru | @bodhi.zazen security issues like those are known to be fixed in supported releases, so they are problems specific to EOL releases and can be closed. But hardware issues? It's the standard refrain: "Upgrade!" Yet those taking up the refrain don't point to some concrete evidence that a newer kernel will fix things. What if it is a third-party driver that will never make it into the kernel? What good will upgrading do then? | |
| Apr 13, 2015 at 19:44 | comment | added | Panther | I believe versions of Ubuntu that are at or beyond EOL should not be supported here for a variety of reasons. Probably the most important is the lack of security patches. There was a recent bash security issue that will never be resolved for example. Hardware issues are almost always kernel or kernel module issues and upgrading to a new kernel is the fix. | |
| Apr 13, 2015 at 16:48 | comment | added | muru | @Oli Because the wording of the close reason implies that to me. Can either of you say for sure that upgrading will solve either problem? | |
| Apr 13, 2015 at 16:47 | comment | added | Oli Mod | Why do you think these are on topic? These both seem to be situations that are very likely limited to the 10.04 release (which is itself out of support and therefore directly off-topic). The exception meta post you link to is more about allowing questions that describe a problem that has nothing (or likely nothing) to do with the release. | |
| Apr 13, 2015 at 16:33 | comment | added | muru | @Seth no, they were just the most recent. But given the new wording, I still feel both are on-topic. | |
| Apr 13, 2015 at 16:32 | comment | added | Seth Mod | I don't think the latter is on-topic. The answer will most likely have be specific to the release. The chances of the hardware working fine in a supported release are very good. I'm unconvinced about the former too.. These seem to be petty bad examples.. Was that intentional? | |
| Apr 13, 2015 at 16:23 | history | asked | muru | CC BY-SA 3.0 |