"server" definition

"server" definition

Posted Jun 1, 2006 12:15 UTC (Thu) by hummassa (subscriber, #307)
Parent article: Ubuntu Dapper and the distribution business

The "LTS" in this release's name stands for "long term support"; this distribution comes with a promise of security updates for five years (on server systems) or three years (on desktop systems). Exactly how that distinction will be made is not entirely clear; one assumes that [...]
One can assume that the "server" packages are those in the "dapper server" install, and the "desktop" packages are the others -- those in the "[kx]?ubuntu" desktop install.

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