Non lts

[CWM84]

I have a question

I thought about moving from KDE to LUBUNTU... via sudo apt-get install lubuntu-desktop

but I watched a couple videos on it and I heard its never been an LTS support so does that mean every 1 year and 5 months ill have to reformat my pc just to keep the latest and greatest?

I liked Ldxe.. But that would be a pain....

Thanks,
Christopher

[pbpersson]

Version 12.04 was released last month and it is an LTS version, it will be supported for 5 years on the desktop.

OOPS, my mistake - I just found this:

Unlike Ubuntu, Lubuntu 12.04 is not a LTS, this version will be supported for 18 months. However, a lot of work has been done to improve the stability of the system.

Bummer!

[pbpersson]

Here (http://www.wikivs.com/wiki/Lubuntu_vs_Xubuntu) is a web site comparing Lubuntu to Xubuntu. Have you tried Xubuntu? That is an LTS version

[haqking]

Installing the desktop does not make it Lubuntu.

I have a 12.04 virtual machine with KDE, Gnome, LXDE, XFCE etc etc all installed and choose at login.

It is still 12.04 LTS ;-)

Peace

[grahammechanical]

You do not have to do this


reformat my pc just to keep the latest and greatest?

at all. where did you get that idea from?

A lot of us get the latest and greatest by upgrading each release to the next every six months.

If Lubuntu 12.04 was a 5 year supported LTS and you stayed with it until end of support you would not have the latest and the greatest by April 2017. You would still have 12.04.

By which time, others in the Ubuntu community will have gone from 12.04 to 12.10 to 13.04 to 13.10 to 14.04 to 14.10 to 15.04 to 15.10 to 16.04 to 16.10 to 17.04.

That is the way to get and keep getting the latest and greatest Ubuntu of you choice flavour.

People choose LTS for the very opposite reason.

Regards.

[CWM84]

You do not have to do this



at all. where did you get that idea from?

A lot of us get the latest and greatest by upgrading each release to the next every six months.

If Lubuntu 12.04 was a 5 year supported LTS and you stayed with it until end of support you would not have the latest and the greatest by April 2017. You would still have 12.04.

By which time, others in the Ubuntu community will have gone from 12.04 to 12.10 to 13.04 to 13.10 to 14.04 to 14.10 to 15.04 to 15.10 to 16.04 to 16.10 to 17.04.

That is the way to get and keep getting the latest and greatest Ubuntu of you choice flavour.

People choose LTS for the very opposite reason.

Regards.


I just heard it wasnt a LTS version... on all the videos i watched.

[zombifier25]

Yes. Lubuntu is not LTS, meaning that LXDE packages are supported for only 18 months, while the core Ubuntu packages are supported for 5 years.