Linux Mint 10 Release

[rfbennett1]

What is the absolute longest i can run Mint 10 for?

[vrkalak]

Until it doesn't work anymore.

However, the regular versions of LinuxMint are supported for 18 months and the LTS versions for 3 years.

Mint-10 is a regular version > so it should be good to go, for at least, another year.
After which time it will still work, it just won't receive any new updates.

There are still people using Mint-5 and Mint-7 with success. They see no reason to change or upgrade -- yet.

As long as, it's not broken ... don't fix it.

[craig10x]

Just curious...though at that point you would no longer get updates from mint and ubuntu...would your ppa's still bring in updates? (like a Chrome PPA from google or a Pidgin update from it's PPA, etc)....you know, any programs you set up seperate ppas for...

[rfbennett1]

Thanx vrkalak for your excellent answer but craig10x does have an interesting sub question about PPA and your personal programs.

[zerozero]

about the PPA's it will all depend on the maintainers: atm for example the Pidgin PPA has pkgs for lucid (Mint9 - LTS), maverick (Mint10) and the upcoming natty (Mint11)

https://launchpad.net/~pidgin-developers/+archive/ppa