On 01/23/2014 09:47 AM, James Vorderbruggen wrote: > On 01/23/2014 06:00 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> Are you required by Ubuntu to create a LTS? >> >> To me a LTS is not really high priority on this great Gnome distribution, >> as the main reason for selecting Ubuntu GNOME is newest Gnome release. >> >> I think people looking for a LTS will go for regular Ubuntu - what do you >> think? >> >> Regards, >> Ren? >> -------------- next part -------------- >> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >> URL: >> <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-gnome/attachments/20140121/b7ecdec3/attachment-0001.html> >> >> ------------------------------ >> > I hadn't ever really thought of that... I think that maybe the logic > behind the LTS is that we should be as official and stable as > possible. If we don't do the LTS, less people may feel comfortable > using the OS. If we do the LTS, people can still add the latest > version of GNOME if they want it ( > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGNOME/FAQ#Why_Ubuntu_GNOME_is_not_shipped_with_the_latest_version_of_GNOME.3F) > I hear what you're saying though. I think the choice here is > between being a more official distro and being more of an experiment. > > -- > James Vorderbruggen > /UbuntuGNOME Wiki and Documentation Team/ > My Wiki <wiki.ubuntu.com/jamesvorder> > /Founder, Presences Web Development/ > Presences Web Development <presences.org> > > Well there are people such as myself who maintain a fairly large number of computers and simply can't upgrade them all every 6 months, thus LTS which means Long Term Support is quite attractive. I currently have 51 computers running 12.04.
Ultimately it will be up to Tim to decide if we can do an LTS or not and I'm cool with that, I consider him our own personal SABDFL :^) If we can do an LTS that would be great, but if we can't it's not the end of the world ;^) Lance
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