Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 23rd Dec 2007 17:38 UTC, submitted by gsmd
"The Ubuntu developers are moving very quickly to bring you the absolute latest and greatest software the Open Source Community has to offer. Hardy Heron Alpha 2 is the second alpha release of Ubuntu 8.04, and with this new alpha release comes a whole host of excellent new features."
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2006-05-12
8.04 is a LTS release:
From wikipedia: Ubuntu releases new versions every six months, and supports those releases for 18 months with daily security fixes and patches to critical bugs. There are also Long Term Support (LTS) releases, which have three years support for the desktop version and five years for the server version.
It isn't common for them to push bleeding edge stuff into the LTS release, but at the same time it goes through more testing, should have fewer bugs, and will have available packages and updates for a longer period of time.
I like the way they do their LTS cycle. I almost wish the company I work for would start using Ubuntu server for more stuff instead of always selecting Red Hat. I can tell you that at least haft the people in the group that work on the *nix stuff use Debian and Ubuntu on their own workstations (Windows and Solaris 10 make up the rest).