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I know people complain when new Windows releases take 5 years, but is the opposite better. I mean I just got my official 8.04.1 CD last month.

• davidw 18y ago
  You can stick with the long term support releases if you don't want to do lots of upgrading.
  • amackera 18y ago
    Exactly. The Ubuntu releases are more incremental. Really all that the new releases contain are new and updated patches, occasionally a new kernel release, better support, occasionally additional applications, etc. It's not like Windows where each release usually brings some serious changes.
    • davidw 18y ago
      Linux distribution releases are really about cat herding. With * Gnome * KDE * The kernel * Openoffice * Firefox * Mysql * Postgresql You're almost bound to release just before or just after someone else's "big release" and so either miss it and be a bit out of date, or include something that is perhaps not 100% stable.
• henning 18y ago
  Every release brings buzz to Ubuntu. Frequent releases probably mean a larger userbase.
• ErrantX 18y ago
  The 8.10 releases tend to be more "experimental". I dont think it's advised to actually run a day to day system with it :)