Canonical changes its policy regarding the ESM
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The news is that ESM service will be available gratis not only for individual users, but also for businesses and other kinds of legal entities as well. The catch is that the five machines limit for gratis access stays on. Also, the decision is limited to 16.04 and later editions. Shuttleworth also claims, that there will be a 10 year long security support for all the packages in Ubuntu repos. As far as I understand this, if there will be a security issue found in some old version of k3b or Stellarium - they will take care of it during the whole ESM support period.
"is not a student edition, it's not a developer-only edition, it's for full commercial use for you and for any business you own for up to five machines" https://www.zdnet.com/article/ubuntu-linux-tries-for-the-office-desktop/
Perhaps this announcement could make the idea of "Trisquel 9 i386 ESM" one step closer to reality, because the access to ESM patches will not cost money anymore.
"Perhaps this announcement could make the idea of "Trisquel 9 i386 ESM" one step closer to reality, because the access to ESM patches will not cost money anymore."
I don't know that this makes it any more realistic than before. Having gratis access doesn't give the Trisquel project any additional people to maintain such a thing than existed before. Are you volunteering?
I assume it's not a rhetorical question :) As far as it don't include any coding - count me in. I can test deblobbed packages and report any bugs. For several years I ran my own deb repository archive in home server, so I know the basics. Also, I do take care of one machine (Celeron 1700-based) actually running 32-bit Trisquel 9.
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