[Gllug] Ubuntu and me - suggestions requested (polite ones

[Jose Luis Martinez]

2008/11/14 Chris Bell <chrisbell at overview.demon.co.uk>:
> On Thu 13 Nov, John Edwards wrote:
>
>
>>
>> Ubuntu's 5 year support cycle for LTS (Long Term Support) releases
>> allow for a more planned rollout on servers than Debian's unplanned
>> release cycle.
>>
>   I prefer to have releases occur when they are ready, not because of the
> calendar.
>

That is not practical. Budgets and projects are based on calendars, it
helps if you can show a road map of the technologies you are intending
to use if you want your favourite technologies to be used.

 In the past I was in situations where lots of new stuff were ready
but no new release was available, so I had to create little
frankestein of machines on my own, that with time became completely
unsupportable.

Knowing you will have regular releases with well defined features and
precise support cycles allow you proper planning of what you are doing
and puts at ease the minds of the people paying the bill for the IT
infrastructure you are administering (even my mum awaits eagerly new
Ubuntu releases for her desktop).
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