On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 11:34 +0200, Eero Volotinen wrote: > 2011/3/1 John A. Sullivan III <[email protected]>: > > On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 11:23 +0200, Eero Volotinen wrote: > > <snip> > >> UBuntu lts is now very attractive to desktops, because of long support > >> and it is also possible to buy support from canonical. > > <snip> > > That's what we first thought but it may not be what you expect. We > > assumed that LTS meant that applications would be refreshed to the > > latest versions and new applications would be added. If I recall > > correctly, that is not true. LTS will patch bugs but will not introduce > > major applications updates or new applications. Please correct me if I > > am wrong - John > > LTS = long term support, not latest software. <snip> Yes, exactly, so it develops the same problem as RHEL as a desktop where the applications can grow quite old for desktop usage. As server may not mind a two year old version of OpenOffice or Firefox but a desktop probably does - John
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