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Ubuntu Pro subscription - should you pay to use Linux? (optimizedbyotto.com)
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[โ€“] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Huh, that was hidden deeper than I like. 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

edit: adding some relevant links

[โ€“] sukhmel@programming.dev 2 points 13 hours ago

From the link:

Here, the Ubuntu developers roll out in-house universe security patches (additional backports of new patches against historical versions of the packages), which was previously not available

I'm not sure every package should be considered supported in LTS, so this not being available by default looks ok for me