[ale] Ubuntu 8.04 not an LTS release?

[Jim Philips]

On Saturday 29 March 2008 09:26:45 am Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-03-29 at 03:02 -0400, Dow Hurst wrote:
> > I just read on the Kubuntu site that Canonical has decided to not have
> > 8.04 as an LTS release.  I could not confirm this on the regular
> > Ubuntu site.  Is this true?
>
> Is this just Kubuntu, or does this include all of the Ubuntu family?
>
> If it includes all of the Ubuntu family, then I would have to say that I
> am breathing a sigh of relief.  There is just too much that (still) does
> not work quite right, and using Ubuntu's rules of "we won't change
> things once it's released," well, I doubt very much that 8.04 will be
> used for even six months without it being modded a great deal.  :-)
>
> 	--- Mike

Everywhere else the 8.04 release is being labeled "Ubuntu LTS". So, the LTS 
label is just being withheld on the KDE variant. Gnome is not undergoing the 
kind of major architectural shakedown that is KDE 4. So, there is no reason 
to hold back the LTS label there.