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.
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
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.
I’m running Ubuntu on a server. I’ve enable the free Ubuntu Pro subscription to get ESM patches for the universe repository. Not sure if it really matters, but better safe than sorry.
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
I haven’t tried it, but the live kernel updates feature is what intrigues me the most.
I am for my gaming rig!