Does anyone know? I have 9.04 as originally installed on my Dell netbook. It works great and I hate to change it although I realize I will have to one day. I do not see anything on the Ubuntu site as to an end of life date - it could be next month. Just wondering.

TIA,

Ken

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

It is next month.

As per the link that AlucardZero posted, support for Ubuntu 9.04 will end next month. If you want to have an Ubuntu installation that you can maintain for a long while, I would recommend doing a
clean install (and not a dist-upgrade) of Ubuntu 10.04. Ubunti 10.04 is a Long Term Support (LTS) version. The desktop version will be supported for 3 years.
If you want the newest version of Ubuntu, next month Ubuntu 10.10 will be released. As with all non-LTS versions of Ubuntu, version 10.10 will be supported for 18 months.
Write back if you need more help or advice.

If you want the minimum amount of change you could use 9.10 Karmic, which I believe has seven more months of support behind it.

With Ubuntu I recommend a separate /home partition and a clean install to a new version. As much as I love the distro, dist-upgrades can be messy.

Thanks folks! I knew that the typical support period was "at least" 18 months, however, I was not able to find the definitive word until AlucardZero provided the link.

I have been using 10.04 since testing the alpha releases. I have the current 10.04 on my desktop and gave tested it on the netbook. I am still running 8.04 on my server (really a file backup box not a full fledged server) and on the wife's desktop. I had a lot fewer problems with that version than with 10.04.

9.10 was probably the worst version I have run or perhaps 8.10. I think Canonical breaks more things in their .10 releases than they fix. I guess I will just have to set aside a couple of hours to install, configure, test and backup 10.04 on my poor netbook.

Ken