Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:34:00 +0000 From: Andy Smith <andy(a)bitfolk.com> To: users(a)lists.bitfolk.com Subject: [bitfolk] Ubuntu Intrepid and beyond Hi, I thought I better point out - the reason that Bitfolk does not offer Ubuntu Intrepid is that the Intrepid Xen kernel will not work on anything except Ubuntu Intrepid host server, and Bitfolk does not run Ubuntu. I reported this as a bug ages ago and the outcome was that they don't consider it a bug, have no intention of changing this (will not be fixed in Jaunty or any later release either). So if you are planning to upgrade to Intrepid please bear in mind that you will need to use a non-Intrepid kernel, such as the one from Hardy, or an upstream one or something like that. Basically I do not recommend it. Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting Encrypted mail welcome - keyid 0x604DE5DB

Hi, I thought I better point out - the reason that Bitfolk does not offer Ubuntu Intrepid is that the Intrepid Xen kernel will not work on anything except Ubuntu Intrepid host server, and Bitfolk does not run Ubuntu. I reported this as a bug ages ago and the outcome was that they don't consider it a bug, have no intention of changing this (will not be fixed in Jaunty or any later release either). So if you are planning to upgrade to Intrepid please bear in mind that you will need to use a non-Intrepid kernel, such as the one from Hardy, or an upstream one or something like that. Basically I do not recommend it

2009/3/19 Ian Hobson <ian(a)ianhobson.co.uk>uk>: Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) support runs till April 2013 on the server, it's 2011 on the desktop. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases Also note that Ubuntu supports LTS to LTS release upgrades. So when the next LTS comes out (_probably_ 10.04) then you should be able to go direct from 8.04 to 10.04.