Question about upcoming release of Ubuntu 9.04

[Bret Busby]

On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Charlie Kravetz wrote:

> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:19:48 -0600
> From: Charlie Kravetz <cjk at teamcharliesangels.com>
> Reply-To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
>     <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: Question about upcoming release of Ubuntu 9.04
> 
> On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:28:29 -0400
> David Curtis <dcurtis at uniserve.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:55:24 +0900 (WST)
>> Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> The question is this; is Ubuntu 9.04 to be an LTS version of Ubuntu?
>>>
>>> Thank you in anticipation.
>>
>> The next LTS is planned to be released a year from the end of this
>> April. Numbered 10.04.1
>>
>> http://www.ubuntu.com/products/ubuntu/release-cycle
>>
>
> I think that will be 10.04; 10.04.1 will be about 90 days after release
>
>

If 9.04 is not an LTS release, and it would thence be logical that 
upgrade from 8.10 will be to 9.04, as 8.04 will be being supported and 
updated after support for 8.10 has ceased (or so I believe), will a time 
come, when 8.10 will be able to be upgraded to 8.04?

I ask this, because, after having installed 8.10, when it should have 
been 8.04 that I should have installed on a computer, due to 8.04 being 
the LTS release, I want to find how to replace 8.10 with an LTS release 
without having to lose the settings that the system now has (and all of 
the data such as sent email messages), without having to wait another 
year for the next LTS release.

Thank you in anticipation.

--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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