I’ve been seeding many Foss things for years but for some reason, people keep downloading Ubuntu versions that are more than 3 years old.

Any ideas why there is always someone downloading the ancient stuff, especially Ubuntu?

  • clif@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I just want to say that you’re a MVP for seeding that much for that long. Lots of TBs up there - you’ve helped out a ton of people.

    Thank you.

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    8 months ago

    Yes, Ubuntu 20 isn’t EOL yet. A lot of those downloads are probably IT staff or developers that are running Ubuntu servers or developing on those versions.

    ETA: We still have some RHEL 7 and clones at my day job

  • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    20.04 and 22.04 were LTS versions, aka, long term support.

    Any application that requires stability should run on LTS versions. Combined with Ubuntu being one of the most popular distros, makes 20.04 and 22.04 the most popular choices for anything in a home lab and many smaller business needs.

    Whether you’re building a server for home DNS, or a time server for a small business, then you’re probably using Ubuntu as the base.

    I think the next LTS version will be 24.04, so things might shift sometime after that.