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At any given moment, there are 6 LTS versions of Ubuntu. Are you proposing that there should be more than that? The tradeoffs are pretty obvious. If you're main
by bloppe 1y ago
At any given moment, there are 6 LTS versions of Ubuntu. Are you proposing that there should be more than that? The tradeoffs are pretty obvious. If you're maintaining a platform, and you want to innovate, you either have to deprecate old functionality or indefinitely increase your scope of responsibilities. On the other hand, if you refuse to innovate, you slide into obscurity as everyone eventually migrates to more innovative platforms. I don't want to change anything about these market and social dynamics. I like innovation
- tracker1 1y agoThey aren't still supporting 14.04. How do you get 6? There's one every other year, and they retire one shortly after a new one comes out. They're also pretty quick to shutter non-lts release support each lts generation.