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Re:Ubuntu 11.04 is going to be named the Natty Narwhal by durin42 on Tuesday August 17, 2010 @08:41PM (#1612900)
Honestly LTS releases are only viable for 3 years if you're OK with 3 year out of date versions of software. They never import new major versions of anything, so you're stuck with whatever (eventually old and crufty) version you got. Hardy was stuck on an old and crashy version of Pidgin for a long time, whereas newer builds were actually much better.
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Re:Ubuntu 11.04 is going to be named the Natty Narwhal by oiuytghyuj on Tuesday August 17, 2010 @09:52PM (#1613024)
Isn't that rather the point of opensource? I rely version 2.xx of Blah, i want security fixes to version 2 without being forced to update to blah 7, with all it's new incompatibilities and bugs, just because somebody has a sales target
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Re:Ubuntu 11.04 is going to be named the Natty Narwhal by semanticist on Wednesday August 18, 2010 @06:16AM (#1613708)
Yes, that's exactly what LTS releases are for. I wouldn't use one on my personal desktop machine, but for a production server platform I specifically WANT three years out of date versions of software, since the latest and greatest may behave differently and break everything.

If you were deploying Ubuntu company-wide and had custom desktop software, you'd want an LTS release on the desktop too, for the same reason.

Stability versus agility is a trade-off. In some cases it makes sense to pick a fast-moving platform. In others it makes sense to pick a slow-moving one. With the combination of a six-monthly release cycle and three year support on LTS releases, Ubuntu gives you both platforms to pick from.

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Re:Ubuntu 11.04 is going to be named the Natty Narwhal by ZeroGravitas on Wednesday August 18, 2010 @05:25AM (#1613640)
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports

"This is where Ubuntu Backports comes in. The Backports team believes that the best update policy is a mix of Ubuntu's security-only policy AND providing new versions of some programs. Candidates for version updates are primarily desktop applications, such as your web browser, word processor, IRC client, or IM client. These programs can be updated without replacing a large part of the operating system that would affect stability of the whole system."

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