Goodbye Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook and ARM

I own a pogoplug with Ubuntu ARM Jaunty on it. Ubuntu has been on and off with even producing an ARM version, there are often missing packages like mplayer. Debian produces a full ARM version of there distro that is lighter than Ubuntu. At some point I will take the time to make the switch.

I could be wrong, but in the long run I am sure Debian will be a better choice for speed, support, and variety of packages.

Ok, please help me to better understand this. It seems to me that how security and stability maintenance updates are provided is by replacing a given package in the repository with a newer version which is then downloaded and installed by the end users in the normal update process (likely using update-manager or apt-get.) Since the UNR 32-bit (i386) shares the repositories with the Desktop edition which will be kept updated through April of 2013, will it not share the general 32-bit Ubuntu 10.04 updates with the exception of the packages unique to the UNR?

In order words, if I am fine with the fact that no furthers updates will be provided to those uniquely UNR packages (of which there are not many), can I merely let it ride and keep receiving all the other updates (such as linux kernel, xorg, OpenOffice, rhythmbox, etc.) through the Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop EOL?

Thanks.

Yes, you are probably right... I don't doubt that... and theoretically it should work as you described :)

UNR can now be found in a ppa and can run under the Buntu's 10.10 and 11.04 (but alas not 11.10)