[SWLUG] difference between .04 and .10 of ubuntu

[Anthony Jones]

First post to SWLUG. Yeah 9.10 is/was not as rock solid as previous
releases (I am run 64bit as well). However I do believe there was
quiet allot of new stuff in it and if you want a truly stable ubuntu
then you need to look at the L.T.S. releases.

Tony J
apjone at googlemail.com


On 18 April 2010 11:54, Vladimir Zlatanov <vlado at dikini.net> wrote:
> <snip>
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>> However, that aside.  Can anyone tell me if each release has a beta
>> version first and then when all bugs are sorted it has a 'alpha' or
>> final version.  Is my annoyance at things having stopped working after
>> an upgrade possibly attributable to this?
>
> the order is simple:
> version     / version label
> year.month    dev               -- development version,v unstable
>              alpha             -- early test of release
>              beta              -- release candidate, bugs present
>              release           -- should be stable, but watch updates
>
> the later a label in the above list, the stability improves
> the release label is usually omitted, so if you see Ubuntu referring to
> 9.10 or 10.4 - this means that this is a release, any of the
> dev/alpha/beta denote pre-release software, with respectively increasing
> quality.
>
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