Great idea. Go to South Central and peddle Ubuntu at 3 AM, but you should
include Monday thru Friday!
"Alias" <aka@maskedandanonymous.info> wrote in message
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> Mike wrote:
>> In article <lZmdncHHjvqqAQrbnZ2dnUVZ8vidnZ2d@giganews.com>,
>> Stephan Rose <nospam@spammer.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Here is the release policy:
>>>
>>> LTS Releases are supported for 3 years (5 years server). All other
>>> releases
>>> have 1 year support. When the current LTS expires, a new release is made
>>> available with LTS support.
>>>
>>> What's so terribly difficult to understand about this?
>>
>> Nothing actually. What it means is Ubuntu is not something to run a
>> business on. 3 years?!?! 1 year?!?! Wow, and people complain about
>> the "MS upgrade treadmill"! MS is still supporting Windows 2000 after 8
>> years and XP after 6 years.
>>
>> No business wants OS upgrades forced on them every 3 years in order to
>> stay supported. If MS did that you would be screaming "monopoly"!
>> Mike
>
> Ubuntu upgrades are totally painless. If you're a business, you back up
> your data. Installing a new version of Ubuntu is a nice walk in the park
> compared to Windows which could be likened to taking a walk in South
> Central LA at 3AM on a Sunday morning.
>
> Alias