news 28 Posted July 10, 2014 Hi, In an effort to support a wider variety of hardware within the 12.04 Ubuntu LTS release, the 12.04.2 and newer point releases in Precise shipped with hardware enablement stacks composed of updated kernels and graphics stacks. The intention has always been for these hardware enablement stacks to only remain supported until the introduction of the kernel and graphics stack derived from 14.04. On August 7, 2014, the 5th and final point release for 12.04 (ie. 12.04.5) will deliver the kernel and graphics stack derived from 14.04. At that time, security updates and bug fixes for older hardware enablement stacks will no longer be provided. All users of older hardware enablement stacks will be encouraged to update to the 12.04.5 hardware enablement stack or fully upgrade to 14.04 proper. For any 12.04 HWE stack users interested in making this migration prior to the August 7, 2014 deadline, we have provided a mechanism to assist with this process. First, please ensure your system is up to date with the latest package updates for Precise. Then, run the command below and follow the instructions which are output: hwe-support-status --verbose For further information and details, please see: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/1204_HWE_EOL Thanks, Leann Ogasawara -- Share this post Link to post
