[ale] Ubuntu recommendations

[Collin Pruitt]

After release, LTS releases are only updated with critical security 
updates or bug fixes. LTS is mostly for consumers that require long-term 
stability, as LTS releases are supported for a far longer amount of time 
than regular releases, and LTS releases are rarely used to release major 
changes to the distro for the sake of stability.

On 5/11/2011 4:21 PM, James Sumners 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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Collin Pruitt
Ubuntu Member