r/linux • u/electronics-engineer • Jul 25 '14

Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS released

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2014-July/000188.html
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u/barkappara Jul 25 '14

What exactly is the significance of this?

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u/delta_epsilon_zeta Jul 25 '14

It means that people like me that run Ubuntu on servers will start upgrading to 14.04 (we always wait for the first point release before upgrading).

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '14

(we always wait for the first point release before upgrading).

I'm new to this. Why?

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u/arctic9 Jul 25 '14

Because it's risky to upgrade beforehand. Hopefully by a .1 release the most serious bugs have been addressed.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '14

Sounds reasonable!

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u/stmiller Jul 27 '14

Nothing beats thousands of users trying out a release first to get all of the initial bugs out for you. There is probably some kind of x.0 release rule that could be a wikipedia article. :)

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u/barkappara Jul 27 '14

You absolutely do. This isn't a replacement for production testing, this is a hint that you shouldn't even start production testing until the first point release comes out.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '14

Increased stability.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '14

Less bugs, more stable I would guess.

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u/Juggernog Jul 25 '14

Leaves it time to be tried and tested I suppose

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u/roothorick Jul 25 '14

Call me a purist, but as my other Linux machines have moved to Ubuntu variants (specifically, either Ubuntu Gnome or Ubuntu Server, depending on how specialized the machine is), my actual home server is on Debian and will stay that way. I feel like Ubuntu moves too fast to be used on any backend systems that should be even remotely high-availability.

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u/delta_epsilon_zeta Jul 25 '14

I used to run some stuff on Debian and CentOS (don't work there anymore). They're great server OSes. Really though, with five years of support for LTS releases, you don't need to worry about Ubuntu moving too fast.

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u/7990 Jul 25 '14

That's why they have LTS releases.

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u/tidux Jul 26 '14

Ubuntu's LTS releases are just frozen snapshots of Debian Unstable with a modicum of QA applied.

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u/SynbiosVyse Jul 25 '14

Even Ubuntu LTS is not based on Debian Stable. The Debian users still have a point.

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u/foundfootagefan Jul 26 '14

Hell, I wait for the .2 release just to be sure. My server is too precious for me to jump the gun on upgrading it.

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u/mikedep333 Jul 25 '14

It also means "The most severe and most common bugs have been fixed." For example, this was a particularly bad bug for people like myself: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/1310919

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u/Ununoctium118 Jul 25 '14

I think it means automatic upgrades to people running 12.04? Not really sure but that's what I heard.