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"get more security updates through ubuntu pro" (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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For while apt upgrades have greeted me with "Get more security updates through Ubuntu Pro with 'esm-apps' enabled" and then a list of packages that apparently have updates I'm not going to receive through the regular channel.

Is this just terrible wording, or is it actually that Canonical are holding back security updates for packages in order to promote their pro offering (that I'm 100% never subscribing to as a result)? The packages are indeed installed, and not listed for upgrade via apt upgrade or apt dist-upgrade.

Ubuntu has the best out of the box support for my hardware, so I really don't want to go back to Debian on this machine for technical reasons, but I may have to weigh my laziness against my philosophical discontent here I guess.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm hoping it is just an extended support option for EOL versions.