10.04? No thanks, I give up!

Chan Chung Hang Christopher christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Tue May 11 11:20:03 UTC 2010


> I take issue though with the Ubuntu model for LTS. It makes people
> think that a release is OK as soon as it is published when in fact it
> is only slightly less buggy, if at all, than Ubuntu's non-LTS
> releases. I am at the moment in a permanent fight with my clients to
> convince them to wait for 10.04.1 before I upgrade their servers. I
> upgraded the boxes of a new client immediately after the release
> because I would have lost/not gained him had I kept on saying "wait"
> but it was a silly risk. Thankfully, they are running OK, probably
> because the unstable stuff is generally pulled in by the desktop
> tasksels or other desktop-related apps.
> 

+1

That LTS badge is meaningless if it just means we shall ensure security 
fixes for the next x years.




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