April (x.04) releases on even years are LTS. Not the odd ones.
I did say "usually". It's not as if I go about upgrading servers every season, that would be insane.
Oh, wait, this is the MEAN stack age :)
I use the latest version (a month or two after release) on my personal computers and the latest LTS on all my servers, and it's been very good so far.
Re:Canonical releases Ubuntu 16.10
by qwertyuiop924 on Thursday October 13, 2016 @11:55AM
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Really? when I tried that, I had to reinstall every six months or it would stop working.
Really? Hmm, I've been upgrading the same installation since 10.04 or something, it's been working well. However, I did create a list of scripts at some point to make reinstallation a one-command affair:
https://www.stavros.io/posts/provisioning-your-computer-one-...
Re:Canonical releases Ubuntu 16.10
by thomnottom on Thursday October 13, 2016 @02:56PM
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How would it "stop working"? I've done re-installations here and there, but I can't think of a single time that it just "stopped working". And yes, after a couple months I usually do an in place upgrade for my laptops, desktop, and servers that have all been running Ubuntu for a few years.
Re:Canonical releases Ubuntu 16.10
by qwertyuiop924 on Thursday October 13, 2016 @08:06PM
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Well, usually everything breaks, rendering the system unusable, requiring a reinstall. And than there was that time where the new kernel (somewhere in 3.x, IIRC) refused to boot on my setup (I'm running Intel x86-64, so nothing uncommon). But that only happened once.
If you're breaking your system every six months, that's probably because you're using the October releases instead of sticking to the April ones (which are usually the LTS ones and have fewer experimental packages).
My rule of thumb is to only set up October releases for playing around and getting a feel for what's coming down the pipe, and NEVER use them for production. Only the .04 ones.