[ale] Ubuntu recommendations

[John Pilman]

I suggest the latest release based on the hope that compatibility
issues with your hardware are more likely resolved there.  My old Dell
Latitude x300 ran 9.10 just fine.  When I put 10.04 on it, I fought it
for weeks and had to edit the grub loader to get it to boot. 10.10 got
me back to a nicely behaved system.

...John

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 4:21 PM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:
> Actually, I'm not sure it's as simple as that. Reading [1], I can't
> figure out if they are constantly updating already released LTS
> versions with new packages or if they only do so during development of
> the release.
>
> Personally, I would go with the latest release (11.04 right now). I
> would only ever install Ubuntu on a desktop, so I don't know what
> benefit the LTS version would give me.
>
> [1] -- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS
>
> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>> often = latest release
>> seldom = LTS
>>
>> I think Ubuntu LTS sticks to particular kernel/glibc/*lib* version for the
>> lifetime
>
>
>
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