That many people need old Ubuntu installations?

neanderthal, 7 months ago

Yes, Ubuntu 20 isn’t EOL yet. A lot of those downloads are probably IT staff or developers that are running Ubuntu servers or developing on those versions.

ETA: We still have some RHEL 7 and clones at my day job

cerement, 7 months ago

got curious – 20.04 LTS still has more than a year of support left

caseyweederman, 7 months ago

Seven more years of ELTS

ejmin, 7 months ago

Yeah, should’ve remembered that before asking… Makes sense. Thanks

SinningStromgald, 7 months ago

Data hoarders? People rolling back to older versions? Those are my best guesses.

MechKit, 7 months ago

I assume it’s not human driven. Maybe some automated archiver? Some bot looking for proof of pirated content, and just downloads everything it finds?

ejmin, 7 months ago

Right, that sounds like a good guess. That makes sense, bots are everywhere.

GroteStreet, 7 months ago

Some of it may be, but the fact that the LTS versions (20.04 & 22.04) are downloaded overwhelmingly more than the others seem to indicate it’s more intentional.

jlow, 7 months ago

Do old versions of Linux (Ubuntu in this instance) run better on really old hardware? That might be a reason if so.