On 8/11/07, D. Krmpotic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I want to understand Ubuntu's package manager philosophy though.

LTS in 6.0.6 LTS stands for Long Term Support. Ubuntu committed to
support this version until year 2011 (which isn't really long at all,
considering how many computer systems built in 1970s are still in
production).

The release policy for versions like that is "stability tramps
coolness". So, the distro maintainers will generally provide bugfixes
and security patches, but won't upgrade to anything that creates a
risk of incompatibility with apps people are already running.

Which is why RedHat EL 4 is still on Ruby 1.8.1, and Ubuntu 6 on 1.8.4.

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Alex Verkhovsky

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