Ubuntu announced the release of 5.10 almost 18 months ago, on October

13th. As with the earlier releases, Ubuntu committed to ongoing

security and critical fixes for a period of 18 months. The support

period is now nearing its end and Ubuntu 5.10 will reach end of life

on Friday April 13th 2007. At that time, Ubuntu Security Notices will

no longer include information or updated packages for Ubuntu 5.10.



The supported upgrade path from Ubuntu 5.10 is via Ubuntu 6.06

LTS. Instructions and caveats for the upgrade may be found at

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DapperUpgrades. Note that upgrades

to version 6.10 and beyond are only supported in multiple steps, via

an upgrade first to 6.06 LTS, then to 6.10. Both Ubuntu 6.06 LTS and

Ubuntu 6.10 continue to be actively supported with security updates

and select high-impact bug fixes. All announcements of official

security updates for Ubuntu releases are sent to the

ubuntu-security-announce mailing list, information about which may be

found at

https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-security-announce.



Since its launch in October 2004 Ubuntu has become one of the most

highly regarded Linux distributions with millions of users in homes,

schools, businesses and governments around the world. Ubuntu is Open

Source software, costs nothing to download, and users are free to

customise or alter their software in order to meet their needs. The

Desktop Edition can be deployed as a general-purpose workstation, thin

client, or engineering workstation. The Server Edition provides a well

integrated platform and simplifies the deployment process of new

servers with any of the standard Internet services such as e-mail,

web, file serving and database management.



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Tollef Fog Heen

UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are



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