Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 23rd Apr 2008 07:28 UTC
Tomorrow, Ubuntu's second 'long-term support' release, 8.04 or Hardy Heron, will propagate its way through the list of mirrors. OSNews took a short look at the beta release of Hardy Heron a few weeks ago, and concluded that "All in all, this release packs some interesting new features and frameworks, some of which should have been part of any Linux distribution three years ago. It is quite clearly a beta though, and definitely not ready yet to be labeled as a 'long term support' release." In anticipation of the release, El Reg caught up with Mark Shuttleworth in London.
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2007-07-10
I was waiting for the flip. I was waiting for the sarcastic, elitist, generally anti-ubuntu proclamations that everyone should release in lockstep. It never came.
But, even tho I use ubuntu,
(and arch)
(and freebsd)
it would be a horrible thing if every distro released at the same time. The give and take of release timing and targeted features keeps up the competition between distros. E.G. : branding-wise, I have no reason to switch to fedora, but fedora 9 will ship with kernel-based mode setting for my laptop - a feature I would love to have. Had they released this earlier, I wouldn't be able to take advantage of it. In the end, even normal users benefit from differing release cycles.