Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS Released

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS Released

Ubuntu 8.04 was released nearly a year ago with Ubuntu 8.04.1 arriving a few months later. Now this afternoon as part of Canonical's commitment to offering Long-Term Support to the Hardy Heron we have Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS. Found in Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS are over 200 security fixes and other bug updates The Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS release announcement can be read on the Ubuntu mailing list...

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[bulletxt]

I was thinking that a 6 release cycle is a waste of man power, also the result is that something like 60% of ubuntu users format every 6-7 months. Didn't we format every 5 months because Windows always scrued up? This aint progress, also dont tell me that its not needed to format. Don't even mention the update system.

Probably Ubuntu should come out once a year or even better once every 2 years. In the following 24 months, once in a while major packages get updated includind kernel, external drivers, desktop manager and some of the most important softwares most people use.

This 6 month cycle is just meant to waste money, man power, make people format and so on. Not to mention that each release fixes 10 bugs and creates 4 new ones. thats just an example number of course.

[miles]

bulletxt, that's really good arguments. You should just advocate the idea to Fedora, Open Suse, Mandriva, Ubuntu and about a hundred other distros, it's such a shame they overlooked these points.

Debian is doing a really good job if you want 2 years+ stable releases. It would be neither nice nor useful for Ubuntu to do the same. And if you want to wait longer between releases, there's XP.

[drelyn86]

I'm a little confused... is this just a new up-to-date iso with all the updates (the equivalent of an MS service pack)?.. can I get the same security and bug fixes by doing the regular system update? or am i really going to have to reformat if I want to benefit from this?

[DanL]

Don't even mention the update system.

It's worked well for me a few times. My current Intrepid install has been upgraded from Feisty, and I can't trace any issues to the upgrading.

If you don't dig the 6-month release, then try a distro with a rolling release model (Sidux, Arch Linux, Gentoo, etc.)

[BlackStar]

I'm a little confused... is this just a new up-to-date iso with all the updates (the equivalent of an MS service pack)?.. can I get the same security and bug fixes by doing the regular system update? or am i really going to have to reformat if I want to benefit from this?

Yes, yes and no.

Debian is doing a really good job if you want 2 years+ stable releases. It would be neither nice nor useful for Ubuntu to do the same. And if you want to wait longer between releases, there's XP.

Or, if you don't want to ever wait for updates and/or reformat every n months, just use Archlinux

[Zhick]

Rolling Releases FTW.
Btw: Imho with Debian an upgrade is pretty painless. For example etch -> lenny/sid : Change etch to lenny/sid in /etc/apt/sources.list, apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade and it's done.
Why would this be different for Ubuntu?

[Vadi]

It's not, people like making up stuff for no reason. That's why others call them "trolls".

Only diff in Ubuntu is that there is a button that you can press to upgrade.

[mdmadph]

It's worked well for me a few times. My current Intrepid install has been upgraded from Feisty, and I can't trace any issues to the upgrading.

If you don't dig the 6-month release, then try a distro with a rolling release model (Sidux, Arch Linux, Gentoo, etc.)

You were lucky -- I upgrade over time from 7.10 to 8.04 and then to 8.10, and my system was a bloody mess. :P

Just reformatted completely to 8.04 and called it quits. I'll be fine for the next two years.

[MaestroMaus]

I was thinking that a 6 release cycle is a waste of man power, also the result is that something like 60% of ubuntu users format every 6-7 months. Didn't we format every 5 months because Windows always scrued up? This aint progress, also dont tell me that its not needed to format. Don't even mention the update system.

Probably Ubuntu should come out once a year or even better once every 2 years. In the following 24 months, once in a while major packages get updated includind kernel, external drivers, desktop manager and some of the most important softwares most people use.

This 6 month cycle is just meant to waste money, man power, make people format and so on. Not to mention that each release fixes 10 bugs and creates 4 new ones. thats just an example number of course.

Your hole point is invalid since Ubuntu has two release cycles, as mentioned before in this thread: LTS and normal releases.

You get two years of support on the LTS so you can use that one if you don't like the 6 month release cycle, either by using it two years and then getting a new one, or getting a new one once a year since the LTS version comes out once a year.