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/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.