Eddie Paul Litz
Active Member
If I were to upgrade to Ubuntu 18.10 once it's released & use it for it's full support days & once it's support is over how would I revert back to 18.04.1 or would I have to reinstall it over 18.10?
I could do that as long as it's released b4 18.10 support runs out.Why not just upgrade from 18.10 to 19.04?
Wizard
Do you know if 19.04 will be released b4 18.10 support runs out?Why not just upgrade from 18.10 to 19.04?
Wizard
18.04 + 6 months = 18.10 ... yep, that's right. And that's why it is 18.10 and not 18.1. That trailing zero has meaning. All Ubuntu versions end with .04 (April release) or .10 (October release). There is always 6 months between them (unless they decide to change it later).If I have this right, every new Standard & LTS Versions get released every 6 months?
If you later want to "downgrade" back to the 18.04 LTS series, you will probably have to reinstall. But as long as you move forward you should be okay.If I were to upgrade to Ubuntu 18.10 once it's released & use it for it's full support days & once it's support is over how would I revert back to 18.04.1 or would I have to reinstall it over 18.10?
If I have this right, every new Standard & LTS Versions get released every 6 months?
I read into that incorrectly... I thought he meant that "something" was being newly released every 6 months.Not quite right.
It's just a shame that these Ubuntu flavors only get 3 years support for the LTS versions.
As @wizardfromoz noted above, the LTS versions are supported for 5 years, not 3. Check out:
https://www.ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle
Cheers
The Ubuntu BASE has a 5 year support on ALL releases specified as LTS. The distribution specific software (ie. LXDE desktop, KDE desktop) have a 3 year support -from Canonical-.
Also mind that those 5 years are divided into 2 parts:
The 3 year LTS versions are supposed to start to prepare the newly released LTS (since that one is released every 2 years).
- 2 1/2 years: hardware and maintenance
- 2 1/2 years: maintenance
So I've learned something (which I usually do every day in this wonderful world of Linux)
but it is still as ugly as in 2014 when I started using Linux. No offense to anyone, I just prefer a minimal desktop.![]()