Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft nears End of Life

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Ubuntu announced the release of 6.10 (Edgy Eft) almost 18 months ago, on October 26, 2006. As with all their 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 Edgy Eft will reach end of life on Friday April 25th, 2008. At that time, Ubuntu Security Notices will no longer include information or updated packages for Ubuntu Edgy Eft 6.10.

The supported upgrade path from Ubuntu 6.10 is via Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn). Instructions and caveats for the upgrade may be found at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FeistyUpgrades. Note that upgrades to version 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) and beyond are only supported in multiple steps, via an upgrade first to 7.04, then to 7.10. Both Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) and Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) continue to be actively supported with security updates, and select high-impact bug fixes. All of the announcements for official security updates for
all 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 Linux 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
customize or alter their software in order to meet their specific needs.