Ubuntu upgrades

[Sajan Parikh]

On 09/26/2014 09:27 PM, Chris wrote:
> Thanks, so which is the better option:
>
> 1. Stay with the 14.04 LTS
> 2. Upgrade to 14.10 when released
>
>
The way things are supposed to work is the LTS is for people who want to 
set up a system, develop and deploy applications against certain 
versions of libraries and software, and not having to worry about 
updates breaking things for 5 years.  This means that LTS version will 
likely not get shiny new upgrades unless they are for security.

I'm a PHP web developer, the LTS is great for when I have an application 
I developed on say PHP 5.3 and it's deployed.  I don't have to worry 
about updates breaking my application for 5 whole years.  This also 
means that PHP stays at version 5.3.

On the other hand, a non LTS release gets you later versions of things, 
but the operating system as a whole isn't supported for more than 6 
months.  Meaning, by installing 14.10, I'll have access to the later 
version of PHP (5.5), but in 6 months, the system will update it to 5.6 
potentially breaking my application.

For desktop users, at this point, there is almost zero conceivable 
reason not to upgrade to the new releases.  If you want, you can wait 
until 14.10.1 for some early adopter bugs to be fixed. However, for the 
MOST part, I don't think anyone really gains anything by sticking with 
an LTS version for desktop.  Unless you've completely gone into /etc and 
customized every bit of your system.

Sajan Parikh



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