Ubuntu 8.04 LTS means also LTS for repos

[yiorgos]

My current installation is 7.10.
I didn't upgrade since due to lots of work.
Now that I found some spare time I'm thinking of upgrading
to 80.4 or even 8.10.
My main question is the following, does the Long Term Support of Hardy include a long term support for updates or in order to install the newest version of Firefox or OpenOffice I would have to upgrade to 8.10, 9.04 and so on?

Due to the needs of my occupation I don't have the easiness of upgrading every 6 months to use the current releases.

Thanks in advance

[stinger30au]

yes LTS for repos as well.

when open office 3 hits final i have no doubt it will be backported to 8.04 as it has been writen by a dev at ubuntu brainstorm that it will happen


i would go for 8.04 for stability and 8.10 if you want the latest and greatest

[yiorgos]

yes LTS for repos as well.


i would go for 8.04 for stability and 8.10 if you want the latest and greatest

stability is what fits to my needs.

Thanks for clarifying me the issue.

[Elfy]

Certainly even if oo3 doesn't get backported to hardy then it can be installed - I've been using it on hardy for a long time now with no problems.