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[Eric Jon Rostetter]

Quoting Charles Marcus <CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com>:

> On 9/18/2009, Matthias Andree (matthias.andree at gmx.de) wrote:
>> Ubuntu 8.04 is a long-term support release (desktop three years, server five
>> years), and it's natural that users will use that.

Yes.

> It is also natural that critical servers should always be running the
> latest stable release of critical applications, of course after a short
> but suitable internal testing cycle...

No.  It may be desirable, but it isn't always "natural".  And sometimes it
is problematic (if the latest stable version removed a feature you need,
or changed in such a way that it isn't desirable, etc).

BUT, they should ALWAYS be running the latest version IF there is a SECURITY
issue with the older versions, UNLESS the security patch(es) have been
back-ported and applied properly...

> I have never understood anyone who would use a distro for critical
> applications that forces them to use 3+ year old software.

Because it is stable and just plain works, of course.  If it fully meets
your needs, why would you update?  Updating only for the reason of
updating is silly.  Why update if that doesn't buy you anything?  And since
updating can actually CAUSE problems, sometimes you are better of not
doing so...

Besides, it's not like these distro's don't update them for security patches
and/or bug fixes (by back-porting).

This doesn't mean the OP should or shouldn't upgrade, it just means that
some people should, and others shouldn't, and each case has to be taken
on its own merits.

-- 
Eric Rostetter
The Department of Physics
The University of Texas at Austin

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