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Re:Natty Narwhal with Unity: Worst Ubuntu beta ever by viraptor on Sunday April 03, 2011 @01:01PM (#2403175)
> If you want a stable desktop for production use, use an LTS version of ubuntu.

I'm not so sure about it. All releases are supposed to be stable (final releases at least, not the current beta). LTS has nothing to do with "not-beta" - it's about the length of support only and this is the way it's advertised on the ubuntu website. Whenever they write about "stable" regarding LTS it's in the business context - it's "not changing" rather than "not crashing".

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Re:Natty Narwhal with Unity: Worst Ubuntu beta ever by nuclear_eclipse on Sunday April 03, 2011 @03:27PM (#2403608)
There's a difference between stable (reliable) and stable (unchanged). When talking about the stability of LTS, people are meaning that the package set, and the versions of those packages, will not change throughout the support cycle of the release. Eg, if the release comes with Firefox 3.0, it will stick with Firefox 3.0 for the duration of the cycle, even though Firefox 4.0 or later versions are released in the interim.
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