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Asked: 2013-05-03 13:08:43 +0800 CST

Why is the life of Ubuntu 13.04 so short?

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Looking at the release page, I noticed the short life of 13.04. It is only 8 months : April 2013 to January 2014.

Why is the life of 13.04 so short?

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  1. Best Answer

    Canonical switched to a 9 month support plan for non LTS releases because back-porting bugs and package upgrades was consuming too much time for the company, since most users of non-LTS releases upgrade each cycle.

    Source: Too much time wasted reading about Linux.

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  2. After further browsing, I found this :

    Ubuntu 13.04 will only be supported for 9 months. Previous non-LTS releases were supported for 18 months. For more information, please read the announcements here or here.

    The first link tells :

    The rationale here is that it’s costing a lot of time to maintain all those releases for 18 months. It’s also causing a lot of load on the SRU team and on developers to ensure that upgrading from one release to the other won’t cause regressions due to fixes being SRUed only to a few releases.

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