[Gloucs] Bad Karma

[Andrew Oakley]

Gerd Busker wrote:
> Glyn Davies wrote:
> > Any one else having a bad time with Karmic Koala? My laptop 
> There is something fundamentally wrong with KK.  After 

I had a hell of a time upgrading from 8.04 to 8.10 so went back to 8.04
and stayed there.

Ubuntu's LTS (Long Term Support) releases are excellent, especially if
you leave it until a couple of months after release. These are 6.06
Dapper, 8.04 Hardy and the forthcoming 10.04 Lucid. They work, they stay
working for 3-5 years, they get all the updates, and if you want
cutting-edge stuff you can usually find it on a Launchpad ppd repo
anyway (but remember to uninstall the ppd stuff when you upgrade to the
next LTS).

I really think Canonical should stop promoting non-LTS releases as
anything other than test releases. With a six-month upgrade cycle and
only 18 months support, these releases are not suitable for anything
other than testing. They're fine as your secondary distro, to see what
cutting-edge features are being developed for the next LTS release, but
they're not suitable for reliable day-to-day work.

LTS releases are the "stable" branch of Ubuntu. The non-LTS releases are
unstable.

Andrew Oakley
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