Re: [Trisquel-users] Extended-Term Support

[jason]

Newer versions do more than just bug fixes and provide security updates: They  
also introduce new functionality. Anything is fair game once Linus Torvalds  
opens the merge window at kernel.org for people to send in their changes for  
the next major kernel release. The concern is that adding in new  
functionality can also introduce new problems. Yes, those can be fixed with  
later patch updates to those newer versions but by having LTS or ETS versions  
that limit changes to bug and security fixes those kinds problems can be  
avoided in the first place. So, LTS and ETS versions are a good choice for  
someone that places a higher priority over long-term stability than over  
having the latest version with the latest functions. It's the same reason  
that someone might choose an LTS version of a distro.