Changes in Ubuntu releases decided by the Ubuntu Technical Board

[Phill Whiteside]

Hi Lonnis Vranos,

Just how, if any way, the possibly new rolling release will affect either
the flavours (lubunut / kubuntu / xununtu etc). and 'mile stone' releases
will happen has not yet been decided. As was stated, "How releases will
happen" is now the discussion. All that has been so far agreed is that LTS
will be LTS and desktop will will be supported for 9 months. As to how we
release a 'stable' release has only just put been put forward for further
discussion.

Regards,

Phill.

On 19 March 2013 23:28, Ioannis Vranos <ioannis.vranos at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 1:00 AM, Phill Whiteside <PhillW at ubuntu.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > So, desktop is now to be 9 month support, LTS is to be LTS... Just
> waiting
> > on how we are going to release a 'release' once the testing and QA guys
> have
> > gotten our heads round it. Not here for me to blog, but the discussion of
> > just how we are going to have a 'release' is important, so please have a
> > think and get involved.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Phill.
>
> [...]
>
>
> > Regards,
> >
> > Phill.
> >
> > [0]
> >
> http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2013/ubuntu-meeting.2013-03-18-21.01.moin.txt
> >
> >
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw
>
>
> I have the feeling that Canonical has not the size of Google, to be
> able to create many complex Free Software projects of its own.
>
> This is obvious from the Unity/Compiz case.
>
> Also, this is obvious from the fact, that each of the latest
> Ubuntu-family releases, needed a six month bug fix period, for most
> major bugs to be fixed.
>
>
> Personally I have been looking for Ubuntu-family replacements, as a
> possible option for the future.
>
> The distributions I have noted so far, are:
>
> 1.Rosa (also made by a company): http://www.rosalab.com
>
> 2. openSUSE 12.3 or later (also made by a company):
> http://www.opensuse.org
>
> From Wikipedia:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUSE:
>
> Acquisition by The Attachmate Group
>
> Novell was in turn acquired by The Attachmate Group on 27 April 2011.
> Under its new owner SUSE remained a separate company.
>
> ==> By June 2012 many former SUSE engineers which had been laid off
> during Novell's ownership had been brought back.
>
> I think OpenSUSE 12.3 is the first result of this.
>
>
> 3. Fuduntu (a very conservative and simple, partial rolling release):
> http://www.fuduntu.org
>
> 4. Chakra is nice, but it lacks a graphical package installer, and a
> graphical updater, so far): http://www.chakra-project.org
>
>
> I am still looking for more Ubuntu family-replacements.
>
>
> In any case, I hope I am wrong, and the Ubuntu family continue to be great.
>
> --
> Ioannis Vranos
>
> http://www.cppsoftware.net
>



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