[ale] Ubuntu recommendations

[Wolf Halton]

Maybe "lots" is an overstatement.  In my experience, the newest version 
has the most active updating.
69 updates per week instead of 12, for instance.

On 05/13/2011 07:02 AM, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
> 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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