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Re:Canonical Extends Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Linux Support to 10 Years by taeric on Saturday November 17, 2018 @12:50PM (#18476516)
This sounds huge. I'm hoping it is a trend that is either already common and I didn't realize it, or that catches on in the industry.

The rapid iteration of many parts of our industry is fun, at times. There is something for stability of foundation, though.

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Re:Canonical Extends Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Linux Support to 10 Years by WalterGR on Monday November 19, 2018 @07:18PM (#18490897)
Microsoft supported Windows XP for 12 years. They didn’t even need to use the “LTS” branding. (That may have changed now that they’ve moved to rolling updates.)

Neither Apple nor Google do anything comparable.

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Re:Canonical Extends Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Linux Support to 10 Years by taeric on Monday November 19, 2018 @08:41PM (#18491282)
Yeah. I feel Apple and Google are a large part of the wave that destroyed this behavior. They both took major kudos for their rapid release cycle.

I almost think people thought it was fun to constantly update, for a while. To their credit, it used to be somewhat safe to do.

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