Ubuntu 15.10

[Liam Proven]

On 10 October 2015 at 18:39, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> For the benefit of anyone who is unable to figure out why I might have
> wondered whether the above text as posted by Liam Proven on
> 08/10/2015, might have indicated a possibility that Ubuntu 15.04 might
> consequently be supported until the release of Ubuntu 16.04, the key
> is in the wording that indicates that the 15.10 release is described
> as being a non-event, and therefore to not be taken seriously as a new
> version release, thus leading to the question that, if that is not
> going to be what counts for a real new version, will the preceding
> version (15.04), then be supported until the next real new version,
> 16.04, is released, so that, amongst other things, users who are using
> 15.04, would not be required to do a system upgrade that is not a real
> system upgrade, to a new version that is not a real new version, other
> than in name/number only, so that current users of 15.04, could have a
> supported system, in the interim, until the next LTS version is
> released; 16.04, especially, as, as is indicated, apart from the
> aspect of 15.10 being supported until 16.04 is released, there is no
> significant advantage to upgrading from 15.04 to 15.10, as 15.10, is
> apparently, simply going to be 15.04, but with a different
> name/number.

That is, AFAICS, one long, convoluted rambling sentence. I cannot parse it.

So, no, I am sorry, but it does not make anything at all clear.

Whether a release of Ubuntu is a big change or a small one has no
bearing at all on how long it will  be supported for.

To quote Charles Babbage:

"I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas
that could provoke such a question."

(Passages from the Life of a Philosopher (1864), ch. 5 "Difference
Engine No. 1")

> I hope that that explanation clears up any confusion as to why, in the
> context of the description provided, of the significance and status of
> the new, pending, 15.10 version of Ubuntu Linux, relative to the
> existing version 15.04 of Ubuntu Linux, the question is posed, as to
> whether, if the difference(s) between 15.04 and 15.10, are of no
> consequence (apart from the provision of support, and the version
> name/number), version 15.04 would be supported until the next LTS
> version (which generally, I believe, has a support period of five
> years, within the Ubuntu Linux project) is released.

:-o

I am starting to wonder if your posts are some sort of elaborate
practical joke being played on the unsuspecting denizen of the list.

Are you really composing such labyrinthine pieces of sequipedalian
obfuscation without the intent to confuse, bamboozle and gerrymander?

>  hope that this all clears up what was not already clear to some.

Er, no.

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