If you think about it, it's not like it's going to stop working in April...you have a couple months to prep the upgrade before Summer hits.
Ubuntu LTS serves *much* more than Education, btw ;) Cheers, Jordan john wrote: > 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
