Fwd [ubuntu-release] Re: LTS status for Ubuntu flavours]

[Scott Kitterman]

On Saturday, February 22, 2014 18:03:52 Phil Wyett wrote:
> On Saturday 22 Feb 2014 11:48:13 Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > On Saturday, February 22, 2014 12:08:35 Rohan Garg wrote:
> > > > I think you are misreading that.  It specifically talks about users
> > > 
> > > potentially
> > > 
> > > > needing to upgrade only every 4 years.
> > > 
> > > Unless my eyes are deceiving me, the last line specifically talks about
> > > upgrading twice every 4 years, which equates to a support lifetime of 2
> > > years?
> > 
> > OK.  In any case, I still have 5 year LTS.  In addition to the reasons I
> > mentioned previously, I don't want to accept Kubuntu being second class
> > citizen in the Ubuntu project in any way I don't have to.
> > 
> > I think 5 years is working out for 12.04 (so far) and I don't think we
> > should change.
> > 
> > Scott K
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I would also like to see the LTS maintain the 5 years. Would the 14.04 LTS
> also follow the same ethos as 12.04 and stick with the original stack
> (kernel, xorg ...) and not update it as Ubuntu does at point release?

I think it needs to be updated on the install media to install on newer 
hardware, but existing installs aren't affected.

Scott K