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Ubuntu Pro subscription - should you pay to use Linux? (optimizedbyotto.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/linux@programming.dev
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[–] 15 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Glad to hear it's extended maintenance for old software and not making their private users less secure.

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  • [–] 27 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Unfortunately, it's both. They also hold back security updates for non-latest releases that are still covered under Standard support. I work in an environment where we track new CVEs for our builds, and we constantly see vulnerabilities for 22.04 that are fixed in Pro but not made available otherwise.

    Sure, technically you can opt into Pro as an individual user without paying, but it puts everyone who uses off the shelf installs and containers at risk and is therefore an immoral and unethical process in my opinion.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago

    I take it your build is dependant on the community-maintained Universe repo?
    https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security
    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu
    https://askubuntu.com/questions/1452497/what-are-esm-apps-and-how-do-they-relate-to-ubuntu-pro

    If they already to the work for esm-apps repo then they could at least send those fixes over to the universe repo until the release version is EoL one would think. On the other hand I have no idea what lives in universe and what lives in main.

    That was a rabbit hole.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago*

    Pro involves Canonical making unilateral updates to certain packages, while the main universe relies on the package’s maintainers to make updates available. Unless you were to want Canonical to take over development of every bit of linux software, I don’t see how they could improve this.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    for 22.04

    What about 25.10?

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