Pedantry on my part, but 13.04 isn't an LTS release, that "honour" is reserved for even year April releases (10.04, 12.04, 14.04...).

On 25/04/13 13:57, Murray Crane wrote: Pedantry on my part, but 13.04 isn't an LTS release, that "honour" is reserved for even year April releases (10.04, 12.04, 14.04...). Kind regards Murray Crane Kind regards Murray Crane On 25 April 2013 13:53, Andy Smith <andy(a)bitfolk.com> wrote: Even worse, the support time for 13.04 is less than normal. It's 9 months for non LTS releases so 13.04 goes EoL Jan 2014. Unless you need bleeding edge, I wouldn't install 13.04 as a server. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases Cheers, Matt -- Matthew Moore Surgical Materials Testing Laboratory System Administrator Telephone: +44 (0)1656 752165 Email: matt(a)smtl.co.uk _______________________________________________ users mailing list users(a)lists.bitfolk.com https://lists.bitfolk.com/mailman/listinfo/users

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 01:59:51PM +0100, Matthew Moore wrote: Speaking of which, when Canonical announced the shortened lifespan for non-LTS releases it got me thinking that offering non-LTS releases of Ubuntu at BitFolk (with the implied level of support that entails) is going to result in a high turnover of installers. So I'm thinking of only offering LTS releases for direct order or self-install. Obviously you could still go to any other release by upgrading to it from the LTS preceding it. It's not too bad right now because the only releases still with Ubuntu support are Release End of Life ------------------------------------------- 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) 2014-01 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) 2014-04 12.04.x LTS (Precise Pangolin) 2017-04 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) 2013-05 10.04.x LTS (Lucid Lynx) 2015-04 8.04.x LTS (Hardy Heron) 2013-05 of which I have already removed install ability for 12.10¹, 11.10 and 8.04.x LTS. If I don't come up with a policy and do actually manage to add all installers, then by the time 14.10 is released there will be: Release End of Life ------------------------------------------- 14.10 (? ?) 2015-07 14.04.x LTS (? ?) 2019-04 13.10 (Saucy Salamander) 2014-07 ← Added and removed 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) 2014-01 ← Added and removed 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) 2014-04 ← Would have been removed 12.04.x LTS (Precise Pangolin) 2017-04 10.04.x LTS (Lucid Lynx) 2015-04 This is actually only four installers, but three would have got added and removed if I had kept up with all releases. As I am not always getting around to adding the installers and no one actually complained about the lack of a 12.10 installer², I feel like maybe I should just stick to LTS installers. Any thoughts on that? Cheers, Andy ¹ Actually I just didn't get around to adding it, and that seems pointless now. ² Though obviously just because no complaints were received doesn't mean that it didn't put anyone off.