{"id":334,"date":"2007-09-06T04:33:22","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T04:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntucat.wordpress.com\/2007\/09\/06\/lts-doesnt-stand-for-stabler-than-feisty\/"},"modified":"2010-02-03T18:12:53","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T22:12:53","slug":"lts-doesnt-stand-for-stabler-than-feisty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/lts-doesnt-stand-for-stabler-than-feisty\/","title":{"rendered":"LTS doesn&#8217;t stand for &#8220;stabler than Feisty&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntu.com\/GetUbuntu\/releasenotes\/606\">the Ubuntu website<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Long Term Support) will be supported with security updates for 5 years on the server and 3 years on the desktop after its release, and professional technical support is available from many companies around the world.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> I&#8217;ve seen it oftentimes recommended to new users on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntuforums.org\/\">the Ubuntu Forums<\/a> to install 6.06 (an older version of Ubuntu) instead of 7.04 (the current, as of this writing, version of Ubuntu). I even saw someone say that LTS stood for <i>long-term stability<\/i>. I&#8217;ve used Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog), 5.10 (Breezy Badger), 6.06 (Dapper Drake), 6.10 (Edgy Eft), and 7.04 (Feisty Fawn), and I have answered literally thousands of support threads over the years. I have seen absolutely <b>no<\/b> evidence that Dapper Drake is stabler than Feisty Fawn. <\/p>\n<p> LTS or Long-Term Support means that Dapper Drake will be supported until June 2009 on the desktop\/laptop. Feisty Fawn, however, will be supported until October 2008. Dapper Drake gives you an extra eight months of security updates and no added stability. <\/p>\n<p> So unless you plan on using Firefox 1.5 until the middle of 2009, install the newest version of Ubuntu. If you&#8217;re worried about stability, make sure the release has been out at least a month and a half (so don&#8217;t install 7.10 until December 2007).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Ubuntu website: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Long Term Support) will be supported with security updates for 5 years on the server and 3 years on the desktop after its release, and professional technical support is available from many companies around the world. I&#8217;ve seen it oftentimes recommended to new users on the Ubuntu Forums&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/lts-doesnt-stand-for-stabler-than-feisty\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LTS doesn&#8217;t stand for &#8220;stabler than Feisty&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ubuntu","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1882,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions\/1882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}