[HN Gopher] VSCode Drops Ubuntu 18.04 Support
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VSCode Drops Ubuntu 18.04 Support
Author : pschastain
Score : 23 points
Date : 2024-02-04 18:35 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| kaelinl wrote:
| This messed with me too. At work our primary development
| environment is a farm of older CentOS machines. They all lost
| support with this vscode upgrade. It probably impacts hundreds of
| people. I had to send out instructions to downgrade and pin your
| vscode version while we look for a workaround.
|
| I get that it isn't entirely within the vscode team's control
| (Electron chose to make the switch), but even then, it really
| interferes with a lot of people's daily development needs. These
| systems aren't particularly old or out of support.
| asdaq1312512 wrote:
| Just to double-check - does this mean Ubuntu 18.04 cannot be a
| VSCode remote target anymore?
|
| > VS Code 1.86 (aka the 'January 2024' update) saw Microsoft bump
| the minimum build requirements for the text editor's popular
| remote dev tools to >=glibc 2.28 -- but Ubuntu 18.04 LTS uses
| glibc 2.27, ergo they no longer work.
| pythonaut_16 wrote:
| Wouldn't this just mean if you're on Ubuntu 18.04 you'd need to
| manually update glibc to >= 2.28?
|
| 18.04 is an LTS release which according to Ubuntu's website
| ended standard support in April 2023 and still has "Expanded
| Security Maintenance" until April 2028.
|
| From the article it seems like the real problem is Microsoft
| didn't adequately communicate the change in advance or provide
| safety checks when upgrading. It seems like an easy oversight
| to make though.
|
| Also I'm sympathetic to the numerous situations in which
| developers have no ability to upgrade old Linux boxes but it
| seems like Microsoft's not entirely to blame for not supporting
| a 6 year old Ubuntu release a year after its standard support
| timeframe.
|
| TL;DR: Situation sucks, seems like a typical Linux dependency
| issue, hopefully they consider and communicate better in the
| future.
| ekimehtor wrote:
| Is it not possible to just update glibc ?
|
| https://sourceware.org/glibc/sources.html
| wkat4242 wrote:
| Can't you just keep using the old version? It's pretty much
| feature complete after all
|
| Edit: yes the article mentions it so it's not nearly as bad as
| suggested IMO. If you're on an os from 2018 you're clearly not
| really dependent on the latest versions of everything.
|
| In the mean time you could start working on the OS upgrade.
|
| I don't really understand the wish for old versions in the Linux
| world. I use BSD myself which doesn't have this coupling.. You
| can be on a stable OS but have rolling cutting-edge packages.
| Pretty ideal for me.
| inferiorhuman wrote:
| To be fair, Microsoft doesn't support VSCode on BSD anything
| (and likely never will).
| cypress66 wrote:
| > If you're on an os from 2018 you're clearly not really
| dependent on the latest versions of everything.
|
| I'm on Windows 10 which is from 2015. I want the latest
| software, but an older more stable OS (not Windows 11 yet).
|
| It's true that Windows 10 has had big updates (builds). But
| maybe that's the right approach?
| sixothree wrote:
| Windows 10 22H2?
| orf wrote:
| This is the PR that bumps it[1]. The issue appears to be NodeJS
| 16 reaching EOL.
|
| 1. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-linux-build-
| agent/issues...
| justin_oaks wrote:
| Ubuntu 18.04 is EOL, unless you pay for extended support. How
| many people are paying for that support?
|
| I hope the people complaining about the VSCode incompatibility
| aren't people running EOL software and complaining that other
| people aren't keeping their software compatible with it.
|
| I upgraded a number of servers to Ubuntu 20.04 because Ubuntu
| 18.04 was EOL. I also upgraded my desktop to Debian 12. ;-)
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