[ubuntu-uk] Versions (was release party)

gord gordallott at gmail.com
Mon Oct 9 13:05:05 BST 2006


Long term support generally just refers to how long Canonical will be
supporting it, the long term is because dapper is supported by Canonical
for a much longer time than the other releases. Unless, however, you are
a business this isn't going to mean much, businesses generally can't
jump to a new release every 6 months and need longer support but your
average user can just dist-upgrade safely to the newest release.

edgy will be supported for as long as any other non lts release. edgy is
just being referred to as 'edgy eft' because of the fact that it
includes a lot of technologies which are kind of new, but are of course
fully functional, ubuntu aren't about to release a version which dies
every 5 mins just for a bit of excitement :). recommend edgy all the
way :)

On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 01:44 +0100, Sean Miller wrote:
> Adam Bagnall wrote:
> > Edgy release party? Why do you think they're putting on the Linuxworld 
> > Expo? It's one big party and everyone's invited :-)
> >   
> Can somebody explain to me exactly how Edgy and Dapper are meant to 
> interact? This "Long Term Support" thing confuses me...
> 
> Say somebody comes to me in December and says "I have been told Ubuntu 
> is the distro I should use... tell me about it" I should, I believe, 
> point them at Dapper, yes?! Because that's the LTS version.
> 
> Edgy is just for folks who want cutting edge excitement?
> 
> Or have I got that wrong?
> 
> Sean
> 
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