Strawman: Change the Ubuntu Release Cycle

[Scott Kitterman]

On Saturday 05 January 2008 15:24, Evan wrote:
> There have been a lot of ideas tossed around on this thread, but the
> general consensus seems to be that non-LTS releases (Gutsy in particular)
> are somewhat unstable. Backports used with LTS releases are useful, but
> (correct me if I'm wrong here) they don't provide new features such as
> compiz-fusion or tracker, they only upgrade currently installed packages.
>
New packages can be (and routinely are) backported.  The trick can be if they 
require newer versions of existing libraries.  Then it may not be feasible.

Scott K