Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 10th Jan 2008 23:14 UTC
"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 3 is the third alpha release of Ubuntu 8.04, and with this new alpha release comes a whole host of excellent new features."
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RE[2]: Comment by moleskine
by sbergman27 on Sat 12th Jan 2008 15:32
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Member since:2005-07-24
Once an Ubuntu release hits gold, it's all but forgotten.
I was worried about you, cmost! It took you alrmost 5 hours from the story's release time to post your expected flamebait. I feared something might have happened to you. ;-)
Anyway, I have users running 6.04, 19 months old, and they are still supporting it just fine, and plan to support it for another 17, for a total of three years. That's for the desktop version. I don't happen to have any Ubuntu 6.04 servers, but that will be supported for another 41 months for a total of five years. And the upcoming release, scheduled for April, will be another 3 and 5 year support release. Normal releases are well supported for 18 months, which is not at long as OpenSuse's 24 months, but considerably longer than Fedora's 13 months.
So the facts of the matter clearly contradict your (rather inflammatory) claims.
I actually have many more users on Fedora and CentOS than Ubuntu, but I do happen to use it on one of my own machines and some of my users use it at home in addition to at work, so I keep an eye on these things.
Edited 2008-01-12 15:51 UTC
Member since:
2006-07-16
Ubuntu devs are very, very slow to fix bugs. They're too obsessed with the next big release to worry about what's happening in the current release. They're like a child who skips the main course to head straight for the desert. Once an Ubuntu release hits gold, it's all but forgotten.