[ubuntu-za] People sticking to LTS?

[Jan Greeff]

After my nightmare experience with 12.10, which had me scurrying back to 
12.04, I will stick with 12.04 until I pick up problems with support or 
someone convinces me that I should stick my neck out again.

Jan


On 09/08/2013 17:10, Peter Nel wrote:
>
>     Easy: http://ubuntu.sun.ac.za/wiki/index.php/Support
>     What would you as an IT manager be willing to support.
>     Remember support costs, it's not only about the software, it's
>     also about
>     24/7 on-call service.
>     Add more complexity to support and you add costs.
>
>
> No I certainly get that Hilton. I'm not referring to desktop 
> deployments throughout organizations that are covered by some IT 
> policy, nor as I said, servers.
> I'm talking about everyone else, mostly home users... who do not 
> receive support from an IT department anyway. They'd need IT support 
> whether they use LTS or not, but both LTS and regular-release users 
> have to help themselves and eachother, like we do now.
>
> LTS obviously doesn't mean you'll never have problems, or never need 
> support. It just means you'll wait longer before you upgrade...
>
>

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