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MibunoOokami
August 16th, 2014, 12:08 AM
Yesterday during some updates there was a new LTS available. I then remembered that a few weeks ago there were some new hardware drivers available which I chose not to install and it is since then that the problem(s) I mentioned in this (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2237616&p=13089445#post13089445) thread began. One question I have here is, is it likely that by not upgrading the drivers caused the problems in my last thread to begin?

What I want to know about this new LTS is, why is there a new LTS already? I'm quite certain that until the release of 12.04 all the LTS were released three yearly and after 12.04 they were going to be released every five years. So why is there one available now in 2014?

grahammechanical
August 16th, 2014, 12:31 AM
It is not a new LTS it is the same one but there have been hardware compatibility improvements to the Linux kernel over the last six months. So, that Ubuntu 14.04 does not fall behind a new ISO image has been created with these improvements. And so we now call 14.04 Ubuntu 14.04.1. There will be 4 more of these "point" releases over the next 2 years so that by August 2016 14.04 will have been updated to 14.04.5.

See the charts at the bottom of this page.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack

This is normal Ubuntu development procedure. Ubuntu 12.04 has just this months become Ubuntu 12.04.5.

Usually, the Update Manager will inform LTS uses that a new LTS is available. Ubuntu 14.04 was released at the end of April but the developers decided to delay the notification of the release of 14.04 until 4 months later when they were ready to release Ubuntu 14.04.1.


I'm quite certain that until the release of 12.04 all the LTS were released three yearly and after 12.04 they were going to be released every five years. So why is there one available now in 2014?

That is unbelievably inaccurate. For years Ubuntu LTS releases have come at 2 yearly intervals. Until the release of 12.04 an LTS release was supported for 3 years on the desktop and 5 years on the server. With the release of 12.04 Ubuntu LTS releases, whether desktop or server, were to be given support for 5 years. But the same 2 yearly release pattern was to be kept to. The Interim releases are still released every 6 months but they only get 9 months support.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS

Regards.

MibunoOokami
August 16th, 2014, 04:23 AM
That is unbelievably inaccurate. For years Ubuntu LTS releases have come at 2 yearly intervals. Until the release of 12.04 an LTS release was supported for 3 years on the desktop and 5 years on the server. With the release of 12.04 Ubuntu LTS releases, whether desktop or server, were to be given support for 5 years. But the same 2 yearly release pattern was to be kept to. The Interim releases are still released every 6 months but they only get 9 months support.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS

Regards.

Now that you say that I remember my last LTS was 10.04 :oops:. I must have confused the support duration changing from 3 to 5 years as being the release of LTS versions and so I was a bit sceptical about upgrading.

Thanks.

MibunoOokami
August 19th, 2014, 05:13 AM
Having embarrassed myself and been corrected, I have now happily upgraded to 14.04.