On Sun, 18 May 2014, bart deruyter wrote:
Hi,
the reason for upgrading each 6 months and not sticking to LTS version is
mainly Krita and Blender for me. Those are evolving so fast it's hard to
keep up without upgrading. The dependencies change with them because they
often use latest stable versions of certain libraries. Because for me
personally I do need or want to use the new features of those applications
(e.g. fire and smoke rendering in cycles (blender), painting in tiles for
textures (krita) ) it becomes hard to stick to LTS versions and even then I
have to add for example kubuntu-backports to my system.
Bottom line is that the reason to upgrade to the non-LTS versions is that
development between OS and applications is not synchronised.
The audio world has been moving quite quickly too. (though maybe not as
fast as blender in the past year or so) Certainly Ardour3 showed up
between LTSs and some of the pulse fixes were quite signifcant as well.
As a ballance to that Harison Mixbus is still a very valid tool and still
"worth buying" even though it is bassed on ardour 2. There are a number of
people who are just not using some of the new tools and still do amazing
recordings with past LTS (some no longer supported). I think For people
doing keyboard centred or electronic music things are moving fast enough
to do more keeping up than just LTS.
--
Len Ovens
www.ovenwerks.net
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