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lotuspsychjegood morning00:56
enigma9o7So I'm a bit curious about ubuntu pro.  I understand the idea - register with canoncial, they'll give me more updates.01:37
oerheksyes, that is one part.01:38
enigma9o7When I first saw it advertised during apt updates on my bionic machine, it made sense, it was almost EOL at the time, and now is EOL.01:38
oerhekssupport CVE for universe..01:38
enigma9o7So I registerec, and now get more updates, cool.01:38
oerhekslivepatch01:38
enigma9o7But I also have focal and jammy machines, and they're getting the same ads.01:38
oerheksand the rest after 5 years01:39
enigma9o7Why aren't those updates automatic, why do I have to register for ubuntu pro to get those?01:39
oerheksnot sure, to exclude mint?01:39
enigma9o7It lists various apps, imagemagic and stuff, that it wants me to register for ubuntu pro to get updated.01:39
enigma9o7So, what's the deal?  Is it to get updates on EOL machines, or are they trying to get everyone to register?01:39
oerheksforget the EOL part.01:40
enigma9o7And not sure what you mean about exclude mint; although I dont run mint, I do have machines running ubuntu derivites and they get the ads for ubuntu pro too.01:40
enigma9o7Forget the EOL part?01:40
oerheksoke, try to register them?01:40
enigma9o7But why?01:41
oerheksyes, 5+5 year support01:41
enigma9o7I thought the whole point was to provide support after EOL...01:41
enigma9o7why is it requiring to register when its not EOL?01:41
oerheksthat is the kernel and not all the packages.01:41
enigma9o7they're holding back updates unless we register?01:41
oerheksyes, imagemagick as example01:41
oerheksfrom the universe repo, that is the thingy01:42
lotuspsychje!pro01:43
ubottuUbuntu Pro is a service offered by Canonical for expanded CVE patching, ten-years security maintenance and optional support. Anyone can use Ubuntu Pro for free for personal use on up to 5 machines. For details please see https://ubuntu.com/pro and https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-pro-faq01:43
oerhekswe give support on  imagemagick 6, while 7 is out.01:44
enigma9o7yeah, for ten year support01:44
oerheksgrinn01:44
enigma9o7but isnt 5 year support automatic?   but okay i think i understand, you're saying its cuz its in universe?01:44
enigma9o7so now, you only get automatic updates for main, and have to register for universise (and for main after 5 years)01:44
enigma9o7I only mentioned imagemagick cuz that happened to be one of the packages listed when it was telling me why to register,  there were a dozen others.01:46
oerheksi am not interested in that part, only the extended CVE support and livepatch01:46
leftyfbenigma9o7: you're not registering to get updates from packages in universe. You're registering to get updates for packages in universe that the original maintainers haven't updated but Canonical has01:47
leftyfbbut IIRC, enigma9o7 has me on ignore, so they won't see this anyway01:47
enigma9o7Nah, that was back when I was on matrix.01:48
enigma9o7They banned me from libera.01:48
enigma9o7So now I see you, although I didnt remember you were one of the ones I ignored, I do have a drinking problem and forget a lot.01:48
enigma9o7I got banned from libera because I annoyed an element developer saying I should be able to whois irc users.01:49
enigma9o7Or probably worse than that, but anyways, I digress.01:49
enigma9o7But okay thanks, I do understand now, its the universe updates provided by canonical they want us to reigster for.  But actually mentioning mint earlier makes me wonder... .do they wont people running derivitives to register?01:49
enigma9o7want01:50
oerheksi like to see if that works, mint on PRO01:58
lotuspsychjeinteresting idea02:01
lotuspsychjemint shares already the kernel bugs with ubuntu02:01
enigma9o7I dunno about Mint, but I've added certainly added a couple bionic based bodhi linux machines to ubuntu pro.02:07
leftyfbbtw, bionic is not EOL yet02:07
leftyfbend of May02:08
enigma9o7I didn't know that.  I did see firefox update recently and wondered if it was cuz of pro or regular updates still coming.02:09
leftyfbit's because it's a snap02:09
enigma9o7bionic02:09
enigma9o7its not snap02:09
leftyfbwell, it is, just not by default02:10
leftyfbyou can do either or02:10
enigma9o7So when bionic actually does go EOL, will firefox (deb package) continue to update for pro registered users not using snap?02:10
enigma9o7or only if CVE02:11
enigma9o7which afaik ubuntu doesnt do cve work on firefox anyway, they just update02:11
leftyfbyou're probably better off installing the snap to get immediate updates02:11
enigma9o7well yeah, it was just curiosity02:11
enigma9o7Are there licensing reasons someone couldn't mirror the ubuntu pro universe updates to non-registered users?02:14
leftyfbprobably not02:15
leftyfbgood luck hosting the servers needed to serve then all up02:15
oerheksthere are more with that thought, i just wonder why02:18
enigma9o7I'm trying to understand "there are more with that thought, i just wonder why"04:33
enigma9o7Do you mean I'm not the first to wonder if its okay to mirror the ubuntu pro updates for everyone?04:33
enigma9o7If so, they wonder wy would be, well not everyone wants to register.  Just registering for some seems.... unnecessary?04:34
enigma9o7Even when I registered I was.... aprehensive04:34
enigma9o7and im not a complete crazy person, i mean, i use gmail04:35
enigma9o7I can register five, and I still havent registered my kids computers or my back-room-computer-that-nobody-uses-but-i-still-maintain-cuz-i-can04:38
lotuspsychje!mantic10:23
ubottuUbuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur) will be the 39th release of Ubuntu, scheduled for release October 2023 (https://ubottu.com/y/mm). Join #ubuntu-next for support and questions.10:23
lotuspsychje!next10:23
ubottuMantic Minotaur is the codename for Ubuntu 23.10. For technical support, see #ubuntu-next. For testing and QA feedback and help, see #ubuntu-quality.10:23
lotuspsychjesweet10:23
SysCodehello18:55
SysCodewhat is the best Ubuntu Flavor in your oppinion?18:55
oerheksThere is no single best19:35
SysCodealright. what are all your favorite distros?19:36
oerheksubuntu i guess19:37

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