A FreeBSD 10 Desktop How-To

Re:A FreeBSD 10 Desktop How-To by lvillani on Saturday August 27, 2016 @02:55PM (#12373640)

I still wonder why Canonical promotes non-LTS versions as stable releases. They are not. LTSes are and you only have to update once every two years, or 3-5 years if you wait for your current release to be EOL'ed.

Non-LTS releases are really just development snapshots to give you a sneak-peek of features coming in the next LTS.

At my company we used to upgrade our workstations with each and every Ubuntu release. It was a mess. As soon as we started to jump between LTS versions, every problem vanished. And upgrades are almost painless. We have a rock solid stable base and we can upgrade select packages through PPAs.

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Re:A FreeBSD 10 Desktop How-To by type0 on Saturday August 27, 2016 @03:18PM (#12373729)

The stability of non-LTS releases is comparable to somewhere in-between testing and unstable in Debian, despite of what Canonical wants everyone to believe.

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Re:A FreeBSD 10 Desktop How-To by qwertyuiop924 on Saturday August 27, 2016 @03:29PM (#12373778)

Debian Testing doesn't break your machine every few months.

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Re:A FreeBSD 10 Desktop How-To by qwertyuiop924 on Saturday August 27, 2016 @03:04PM (#12373673)

Well, that's nice.

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