LTS versus staying on latest

Posted Aug 20, 2024 20:31 UTC (Tue) by ringerc (subscriber, #3071)
In reply to: LTS versus staying on latest by farnz
Parent article: FreeBSD considers Rust in the base system

Right. LTS is about predictability more than runtime stability.

Especially when you are part of a chain of delivery it can really help.

LTS versus staying on latest

Posted Aug 20, 2024 20:43 UTC (Tue) by farnz (subscriber, #17727) [Link]

And specifically LTS is about having a known set of bugs; you may have a bug that means that one app overlays little fuzzy squares on everything, but it's consistently present, and you're not going to exchange that bug for one where the app crashes after 72 hours of continuous use. The idea is that you can live indefinitely with the bugs in the ".0" release of the LTS, but you cannot cope with the introduction of a new bug or with a regression.