There is a new set of Ubuntu releases available. All the talk about this has been about the “LTS” part of the release name - Long Term Support. Apparently they will be supporting this set of releases for 5 years. This is an effort to convince people that they SHOULD move to these Ubuntu releases ASAP! I find this novel since the company is only 2~ years old - and they are promising to do something for > 2 * their current existence

For those unaware -Ubuntu is a ‘Debian spawn’ linux distro that has gained LOTS of popularity in the past ~2 years. I have been (happily) running Suse 10 on one of my primary machines. I think Suse is one of the best distros I have ever seen. ALL linux distros have come along a lot in the past few years and become more ‘approachable’ for the non “super-unix-ite”. That all said - I am going to be setting up an ubuntu server now to get used to that distro and see some of the differences in the debian family of distros. I also will be trying to run Gnome desktop (again). I have been on KDE for some time now, but as I have changed distros over the years, I have toggled back n forth between Gnome and KDE . To be honest - I think I will miss KDE as I DO thing it is overall ‘better’ (ok - I admit better is vague).

-Chris

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