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My computer will not support Ubuntu 10.10 due to 'age' ... I have managed a stable install of Ubuntu 8.04 on my desktop and Ubuntu 6.10 on a laptop and would love to use Ubuntu ONE on both as it would be an ideal way to share files between them (even when not at home with the laptop).

Any ideas?

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EoL (End Of Life) you won't get any support for them, have you tried with Lubuntu 10.04? latest LTS, or an Openbox Ubuntu based distro (if hardware perfomance is an issue with gnome,kde,xfce, and lxde). – Uri Herrera Aug 30 '11 at 4:18
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Define the "age" problem, Linux tends to only drop hardware support for equipment that is 10+ years old. – Steve-o Aug 30 '11 at 5:37

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8.04 was supported from April 2008 until April 2011. The latest LTS is 10.04, which will be supported until April 2013 and the next LTS will be released in April 2012, supported until April 2015. Since 8.04 is no longer supported, you can't rely on software to be made available for it. But I see little or no reason why 10.04, and later 12.04, shouldn't support your computer.

There will be no official Ubuntu One support for 8.04, but there is nothing to prevent others from providing these packages. But since you also won't receive any security updates, using 8.04 is strongly discouraged.

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