@projectlint/os-lifecycle

OS-lifecycle

Operating System support lifecycle

Data sources

• Carnegie Mellon
• Ubuntu releases
• Ubuntu distro-info-data

API

Module export a function with a single now optional argument to ask for the maintained operating systems in a specified date (current date by default), inspired by @pkgjs/nv. The module also return by default the data for all the registered operating systems versions. Raw-ish data can be get in the index.json file.

Returned data format (both for function calls or exported by default) is an object with the next entries:

• all entry, with a list of all data entries at the specified date
• OS families, each one with a special newest entry with the most recently released one
• Operating systems entries for each one

Each operating system entry is a plain object with some or all the fields:

• codename
• created
• eol
• lts
• name
• release
• series
• version