For any Ubuntu users here, are you using the free personal subscription of Ubuntu Pro for ESM patches?

I'm curious how many bother, and how the experience is for home/personal servers.

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[–] 6 points 1 year ago

No. I upgrade my Ubuntus before they go EOL so I don't need ESM.

Most places that want ESM do so because they can't get away from EOL versions. I refuse to get stuck in that swamp myself, so I run LTS and migrate/rebuild them when necessary.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I'm running Ubuntu on a server. I've enabled the free Ubuntu Pro subscription to get ESM patches for the universe repository. Not sure if it really matters, but better safe than sorry.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I do. I upgrade before the major release goes out of support, so no I don't get much from it, but I do still get patches from it occasionally. Iirc they released an imagemagick patch before upstream did

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I have enabled this on my private machine, because it's free and it was asking so nicely.

    I don't have the same patches on servers at work.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I’ve tried it. Can’t really see much difference from not using it. As others have said, being a personal user you’re not much of a target - being smart about what you run on your computer has much more of an effect on security.

    In the future I probably won’t bother

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    free security updates are a win of course

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I am for my gaming rig!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I haven't tried it, but the live kernel updates feature is what intrigues me the most.

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