Art Alexion on 5 Nov 2007 02:46:32 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Gutsy


On Saturday, 03 November 2007 16:29, JP Vossen wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 15:04:26 -0400
> > From: Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net>
> >
> > I'm running Dapper at home and it is getting... old.  I am running Gutsy
> > at work and it was stable at Tribe 4 (pre-beta).
> >
> > I know I have to upgrade to edgy before feisty, etc., but if I upgrade
> > Dapper -> Edgy, can I then upgrade Edgy -> Gutsy, or do I have to Dapper
> > -> Edgy -> Feisty -> Gutsy?
>
> I'm in the same boat on a couple of machines.  Notwithstanding Brent's
> good advice, I'm just going to wait until April-ish 2008 for Hardy Heron
> LTS.  It's my understanding that LTS --> LTS "jumps" like Dapper -->
> Hardy will be supported.  I'll also go out on a limb and guess that they
> will be *well* supported and tested, else anyone using or looking at
> corporate use of LTS releases will be annoyed.

April 2008 isn't too bad.

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