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> Besides, the "effort to upgrade our Goobuntu fleet usually took the better part of a year. With a two-year support window, there was only one year left until

> Besides, the "effort to upgrade our Goobuntu fleet usually took the better part of a year. With a two-year support window, there was only one year left until we had to go through the same process all over again for the next LTS. This entire process was a huge stress factor for our team, as we got hundreds of bugs with requests for help for corner cases." Ummm.. No? Ubuntu LTS has a 5-year support window. Not 2. Or maybe it didn't all the way back then? I don't recall. A rolling distro does make sense though. Especially in a large org where you have a relatively homogenous usepatterns. All the edgecases you can find centrally and pre-empt them before rolling out the updates.

midasuni 4y ago
Desktop was 3 years from 6.06 onwards, only server had 5 years. Might have changed recently. This meant you had a year to upgrade the old LTS before it went end of life (from 2008 releases moved back to April, 6.06 was the first LTS and I assume they took a little longer getting it out. I think the version before was 5.10)
- weberer 4y ago
  They changed it in 2012. Desktop gets 5 years of support and server gets 10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_version_history#Version_timeline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_version_history#Version...
mattarm 4y ago
> Ummm.. No? Ubuntu LTS has a 5-year support window. Not 2. Internal users demanded the upgrade every two years anyway.