<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/02/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jani Monoses</b> <<a href="mailto:jani@ubuntu.com">jani@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> That'd be my typing. I know Xubuntu is not supported by Canonical, but<br>> it does receive security updates for a longer period. So, does that mean<br>> Xubuntu is an LTS and the text on <a href="http://xubuntu.org">xubuntu.org</a> <<a href="http://xubuntu.org">http://xubuntu.org</a>> is<br>
> correct, or should I update the website?<br><br>In practice I do not think there have been more than a handful of<br>updates to Xubuntu apps which are not in Ubuntu, so I think it is<br>misleading to call it LTS. We do not guarantee that we fix Xfce,<br>
Gnumeric, Abiword or other packages issues. It is usually better<br>supported than a regular release since base system and apps where most<br>security issues are found are taken care of.<br><br>We may need a better explanation but I think LTS implies Canonical paid<br>
support is valid for the same period (someone needs to check) and that<br>is definitely not the case for Xubuntu yet.</blockquote><div><br>OK, does anyone have any suggestions for a better term than "LTS" to use for Xubuntu?<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Jani</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Vincent