The prolonged lifecycle of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and 16.04 LTS turns a new page in Canonical’s commitment to enabling enterprise environments, said Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos, product manager at Canonical. By prolonging the operating system lifecycle to 10 years, Canonical is helping organizations to better assess their IT budget in order to implement or plan their infrastructure upgrades.
I agree this is great for servers and enterprise, but for the average desktop user I still recommend upgrading to the latest LTS version.
Not to be a contrarian, but upgrading to the latest LTS version is not always the best choice. We upgraded from 16.04 to 18.04 when the stable version came out only to be forced to go back to 16.04 owing to being unable to compile a tunneling application that we depend on with 18.04. Our hard headed determination to "make it work" led to hours of fruitless searching for a solution and no alternative than to go back to 16.04.
Canonical Breathes Longer Life Into Two Ubuntu Aging Releases
Posted by: Jack M. Germain September 29, 2021 05:00 AMThe prolonged lifecycle of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and 16.04 LTS turns a new page in Canonical’s commitment to enabling enterprise environments, said Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos, product manager at Canonical. By prolonging the operating system lifecycle to 10 years, Canonical is helping organizations to better assess their IT budget in order to implement or plan their infrastructure upgrades.