9.1 a candidate for LTS?

[Jatin Davey]

Pastor JW wrote:
> On Sunday 06 December 2009 9:51:17 pm Jatin Davey wrote:
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>> sdavmor wrote:
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>>> Pastor JW wrote:
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>>>> 10.04 will be the next LTS and was known it would be since 8.04.
>>>> They are released on a two year cycle.  I'm currently on 8.04 and
>>>> will update when 10.04 is a couple weeks old since I work on the
>>>> computer and LTS is much more likely to be stable.
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>>> My bad.  I was under the impression LTS was every 18 months.
>>>       
>> Apologies for my ignorance , I am a new Ubuntu user. Curious to know
>> what this LTS release is ?
>> I thought the ubuntu 9.10 release was the stable release. Could some one
>> please explain why is there two seperate release such as 9.10 or 10.4 in
>> the future which is said to be stable one. Could some one explain the
>> reasoning behind these different releases. Pointers to it would also help.
>>     
>
> This url should give you the reasoning behind it https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS 
> but really there is only the difference as to how long the release will be 
> actively updated and bugfixed.  If you change every release of course you 
> will always be right out in front.  Of course, every 6 months is too often to 
> change systems for some of  us who need our machines working everyday so the 
> longer term for updating is more manageable for us.  So far you can go 
> directly from one LTS version to the next without having to go through every 
> release on the way up which also is a nice feature for busy people!   
> Curiosity is a good thing, how else does one find out the reasons behind why 
> things are as they are?!!
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>   
Thanks Pastor.

Thanks
Jatin