When should I upgrade

[Liam Proven]

On 30 April 2011 14:43, stan <stanb at panix.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 11:00:50PM +1000, Ben Darby wrote:
>> * stan (stanb at panix.com) wrote:
>> > I have a number of machines running 10.04 (LTS). When should I upgrade the
>> > first of thesee (my workstation) to 11.04? And how?
>>
>> Given you've skipped over 10.10 already and you're on an LTS, do you
>> really need to upgrade right now? If you're after stability stick with
>> 10.04 until either the next LTS or see how things pan out on the unity
>> front. Otherwise if you're happy to beta test unity on your main
>> workstation there isn't a direct upgrade from 10.04 to 11.04, you will
>> have to upgrade to 10.10 and then 11.04 or do a fresh install with
>> 11.04.
>>
>
> OH, I was thinking that 11.04 was an LTS. My mistake. I suppose the next
> release will be an LTS then? In about 6 motnhs?

No. The LTS releases are every *two* years, i.e., every *four* Ubuntu versions.

So far, the LTS releases have been:
6.06 - June 2006
8.04 - April 2008
10.04 - April 2010

>From this you can readily deduce that the next one should be 12.04 in
April 2012.

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