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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?

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[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

got curious – 20.04 LTS still has more than a year of support left

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Seven more years of ELTS

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah, should've remembered that before asking... Makes sense. Thanks