[BLUG] Democratux / OpenOfficeholders

[Simon Ruiz]

Ubuntu has an interesting release cycle. There's a new release every 6 months or so, and the newest version I've always found to be a nice improvement over the last. Ubuntu Dapper (released in June of 2006) is the first LTS (Long-Term Support) release, which means that it will be supported for three years (normal releases are supported for 18 months) on the desktop, five on the server (3 for normal releases).
 
If your target upgrade date is mid 2009, though, even going for Edgy (which is at least as stable as Dapper) would be supported until then on the server.
 
I don't know much about Debian on the server, so I'm not trying to say Ubuntu is better than Debian, it's just what I know.
 
HTH,
 
Simon
 

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From: blug-admin_at_cs.indiana.edu on behalf of Rick Dietz
Sent: Sun 2/25/2007 7:54 PM
To: blug_at_cs.indiana.edu
Subject: Re: [BLUG] Democratux / OpenOfficeholders




On Feb 25, 2007, at 7:46 PM, Michel Salim wrote:

> They're moving to a 2n+1 cycle -- starting from Fedora 7, IIRC, every
> release will be supported until one month after the release of 
> (version
> number+2), which means >= 13 months. But yes, unless you plan to 
> upgrade
> every year I'd go with CentOS.

If at all possible I would like to avoid upgrading until mid-2009. -R