[ale] Ubuntu recommendations

[Geoffrey Myers]

Wolf Halton wrote:
> Geoffrey,
> 
> If you are looking to have lots of (mostly minor) updates and upgrades, 
> use newest normal release.  I actually like the bleeding edge, so I used 
> to download alpha versions and run them on dev testing machines.
> LTS version is less demanding and lower maintenance, but I like 
> semi-annual major updates..
> If you want a version to learn with use one version back from the newest 
> in both cases.  There will be more how-to information on the net and the 
> issues will be better defined.

Can someone define 'lost of updates and upgrades?'  Updates are fine if 
I'm simply updating various applications without too much pain.  By 
'upgrade', are you saying a reinstall, or is it simply a larger update?

> 
> Wolf
> 
> On 05/11/2011 03:18 PM, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
>> Looking at installing Ubuntu on a laptop.  Pretty new to this distro, so
>> should I go with the latest release or the latest LTS release?
>>
>> Pros/Cons?
>>
> 
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