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Re:Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to get extra-long desktop support cycle by dman on Friday October 21, 2011 @04:21PM (#3141496)
One use case I can think of where this makes sense - Big companies have policies where you have to get every version of an open source software approved by legal because the license might have changed. Having a frozen set of versions makes software an easy sell for such customers.
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Re:Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to get extra-long desktop support cycle by guard-of-terra on Saturday October 22, 2011 @06:16AM (#3143284)
I would not do that if I was them.

It's as productive as if they would run an unrolled tight nop loops. A lot of heat dissipates and nothing comes out.

Anyway, I mostly talk about distros aimed at the desktop.

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