Re:The Loyalty to AMD’s GPU Product Among AMD CPU Buyers Is ...
by paulmd on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @12:17PM
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Slightly OT but why is the .10 release always the short-term release and .04 the LTS? You would intuitively think higher number => more stable and that you would avoid major breaking changes on a minor release number, but they do exactly the opposite.
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Re:The Loyalty to AMD’s GPU Product Among AMD CPU Buyers Is ...
by daveguy on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @10:32PM
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To put it a little more explicitly. Ubuntu names their releases for the YY.MM of release 16.04 was released in the year 2016 (16) in April (04). So those are date based releases rather than semantic versioning (semantic is x.y.z with x major, y minor, z patch).
They release a LTS version every two years in April: 12.04, 14.04, 16.04 and the next will be in 2018, 18.04. They do add a "patch" version after that, but the YY.MM are the major releases. 16.04 is an older version than 16.10, but it will be supported with patches for a longer period of time (major versions of individual software packages will stay the same).
Re:The Loyalty to AMD’s GPU Product Among AMD CPU Buyers Is ...
by toss1941 on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @12:26PM
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LTS releases are in April where non-LTS come out in October. Doesn't explain your question exactly, but at least that's what the numbers mean.