Hi all, I was sort of idly wondering why does Ubuntu end-of-life their LTS releases in April? Whose interest does it serve? >From my prospective (e.g. a school computer admin) it's a terrible time. It leaves me with unsupported software for 3 months of the school year. Assuming (perhaps erroneously) that many of the most avid users of LTS Desktop releases are educational institutions (after all individual users probably track the "latest and greatest" ubuntu), why not just push the EOL date back until July? Granted that may not work for parts of the world where school happens in July, but it would at least work for approx .5 of the worlds edubuntu user base. Or perhaps it should EOL on a schedule that works for the other .5. I am not really arguing for one or the other (if indeed this is really a concern, I see that Australian schools seem to have a holiday from July 5 to July 21). I am merely suggesting that the current schedule doesn't work very well for ANY educational institution.
As I understand it Hardy will EOL in April 2011, so if a change were to be implemented, there would be some time to adjust. Note I am only talking about Desktop LTS EOL cycle's. It wouldn't even require (much) more developer energy since most fixes likely to come in the additional three months of support would probably be mirrored in the Server LTS support which runs an additional 2 years (e.g. Hardy Server LTS EOL is April 2013). Perhaps that's already how it works and I am just full of beans (I don't think this is the case since Edu 7.04 LTS didn't get updates after April 2008). I'd be interested in someone setting me straight if I am way of base here. Thanks! John -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
