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Interesting development and a wise move (IMHO). But speaking from my own narrow opinion, I am not a fan of Unity nor Gnome 3 nor KDE or Xfce. I'm rather partial to Gnome 2 and am quite happy with that. I liked Fedora and I really like Ubuntu but more and more find myself wondering if I'm going to be custom building my own fork of Ubuntu to get what I want or go to Mint. Am I the only one thinking this way or are others like me and happy with the desktop classic? Perhaps a well placed email to Canonical asking for a choice at installation for which desktop we want? Is such a thing feasible? Perhaps not in a CD release but certainly in a DVD image?<BR>
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Rich in Lilburn<BR>
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<B>From</B>: Don Kramer <<A HREF="mailto:Don%20Kramer%20%3cdonkramer@gmail.com%3e">donkramer@gmail.com</A>><BR>
<B>Reply-to</B>: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale@ale.org><BR>
<B>To</B>: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <<A HREF="mailto:Atlanta%20Linux%20Enthusiasts%20%3cale@ale.org%3e">ale@ale.org</A>><BR>
<B>Subject</B>: [ale] phoronix.com: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Desktop To Be Supported Longer (5 Years)<BR>
<B>Date</B>: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:06:40 -0400<BR>
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I think this is big news on the desktop front: Starting with Ubuntu 12.04's April 2012 release, Canonical's support for the desktop release will be five years (which they've already been doing for the server edition) instead of three. <BR>
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<A HREF="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAwNDE">http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAwNDE</A><BR>
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And for you Gnome 3 haters, since for Ubuntu 10.04 the LTS three year support cycle also included the KDE version (Kubuntu 10.04 LTS) and the Xfce version (Xubuntu 10.04 LTS), hopefully the five year support cycle will include those too, as well as the newest official Ubuntu derived distro .. Lubuntu with the LXDE desktop. <BR>
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I switched to Debian Squeeze as my primary distro (from Ubuntu) this year, but this development may make me reconsider Ubuntu. <BR>
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