On Thu, 2015-12-03 at 14:08 -0500, Mark Foley wrote: > Yes, I quite understand about the whole version/package delay thing. > I've also used Slackware for years which is even more dramatic in this > respect. However, I though I was using the "latest" stable version. > > The http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop site shows 14.04.03 LTS and > 15.10 versions downloadable. Possibly I'm confused. I thought > 14.04.03 was the latest stable and 15.10 beta-ish, techies invited to > test. Am I mistaken? What exactly is the difference between "The > latest version of ... Ubuntu (15.10)" and "Long Term Support" version > (14.04.03). Maybe I got off on the wrong foot to begin with.
Probably this belongs on an Ubuntu list not here, but basically the Ubuntu Long Term Support releases are more like Red Hat Enterprise releases: the LTS releases are released every 2 years or so and intended to be used on systems where you don't need the latest software but you want support and you don't want to upgrade your system very often. They are supported for 5 years. So, Ubuntu 14.04 was released in April 2014 and will be supported until April 2019. But note "support" means security and important bug fixes, it does not mean "new versions of software". In 2019, Ubuntu 14.04 will still have the same version of Gnome and Evolution as it did when it was released. The next LTS release will be 16.04, out next April. That one will have Evolution 3.18 available BTW and be supported until 2021. Non-LTS Ubuntu releases are supported for only 9 months... so you need to upgrade to the next one within 3 months of it being released (Ubuntu releases come out every 6 months) if you want continuous support. However, non-LTS releases are not "beta-ish": they are real releases and not restricted only to techies and pretesters. Every Ubuntu release goes through a beta period before it's released. The big difference is the support lifetime, not the quality: you are signing up to upgrade your system more often if you want it to be supported. Regardless of LTS/non-LTS, though, it's still always the case that a newer version of a software package like Evolution (etc.) will never be backported to an already-published release of Ubuntu so you'll always have to upgrade to a newer release if you want it. HTH! _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
