Ubuntu May Move To Rolling Releases

formfeed writes "The register claims that 'Ubuntu is moving away from its established six-month-cycle and potentially to a future where software updates land on a daily basis.' While this sounds like a sudden change, it is apparently more of a long-term thought. The Register quotes Shuttleworth: '"Today we have a six-month release cycle," Shuttleworth said. "In an internet-oriented world, we need to be able to release something every day. That's an area we will put a lot of work into in the next five years. The small steps we are putting in to the Software Center today, they will go further and faster than people might have envisioned in the past."' But given that many of Shuttleworth's thoughts became decisions later on, it might be interesting to see, where this one leads. Interestingly enough, five years is about the time when Ubuntu will run out of letters."

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[Haedrian]

I don't really like this news.

People like new things. I think you can get more people to change by telling them "The latest Ubuntu is out!" - which has some large changes which people can get wowed by and appriciate.

That said, with the update manager always updating at least SOMETHING every day, its sorta like this.

That said, I wish to add a question - What exactly is the difference between say Ubuntu 10.4 and 10.10 ? What exactly is a 'latest upgrade' ? When they change the way things look and a few policies (such as the default media players?)