[ale] phoronix.com: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Desktop To Be Supported Longer (5 Years)

[Richard Faulkner]

Interesting development and a wise move (IMHO).  But speaking from my
own narrow opinion, I am not a fan of Unity nor Gnome 3 nor KDE or Xfce.
I'm rather partial to Gnome 2 and am quite happy with that.  I liked
Fedora and I really like Ubuntu but more and more find myself wondering
if I'm going to be custom building my own fork of Ubuntu to get what I
want or go to Mint.  Am I the only one thinking this way or are others
like me and happy with the desktop classic?  Perhaps a well placed email
to Canonical asking for a choice at installation for which desktop we
want?  Is such a thing feasible?  Perhaps not in a CD release but
certainly in a DVD image?

Rich in Lilburn

-----Original Message-----
From: Don Kramer <donkramer at gmail.com>
Reply-to: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
Subject: [ale] phoronix.com: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Desktop To Be Supported
Longer (5 Years)
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:06:40 -0400

I think this is big news on the desktop front: Starting with Ubuntu
12.04's April 2012 release, Canonical's support for the desktop release
will be five years (which they've already been doing for the server
edition) instead of three.  

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAwNDE

And for you Gnome 3 haters, since for Ubuntu 10.04 the LTS three year
support cycle also included the KDE version (Kubuntu 10.04 LTS) and the
Xfce version (Xubuntu 10.04 LTS), hopefully the five year support cycle
will include those too, as well as the newest official Ubuntu derived
distro .. Lubuntu with the LXDE desktop. 

I switched to Debian Squeeze as my primary distro (from Ubuntu) this
year, but this development may make me reconsider Ubuntu.  



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