Re: Non-LTS: 9 Months Support
Originally Posted by
3rdalbum
Great! So early next year, people will be getting nice and frustrated trying to install 12.04 on hardware that hasn't even been invented yet. They'll start complaining that "Ubuntu doesn't support my wifi, graphics card or 3G dongle; how can anyone use this crap" and go storming back to Windows. Or worse - Ubuntu 12.04 won't even be able to boot on such a new computer.
Canonical needs to release new LTS images with the latest kernel, every six months otherwise the above will happen.
I didn't really see a problem with the previous model of "LTS is for businesses, interim releases are for users" and decreasing the support window to 9 months.
Canonical already offers opt-in periodic updates to the LTS kernel, they are called "hardware enablement updates" 12.04 already has the quantal kernel and video drivers available in the repos. the raring kernel should be available eventually too.
Last edited by screaminj3sus; March 31st, 2013 at 03:05 AM.
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