[ale] Ubuntu 8.04 not an LTS release?

[Chris Ricker]

On Sat, 29 Mar 2008, Michael B. Trausch wrote:

> On Sat, 2008-03-29 at 12:40 -0400, Brian Pitts wrote:
> > Ubuntu 8.04 server and desktop will have long-term support. FWIW, I'm 
> > using Firefox+Ndiswrapper+Flash and have not had Flash cause Firefox
> > to crash once. In all past releases Flash crashed and brought down
> > Firefox several times a day. Flash still crashes, but now that I'm
> > using 64-bit it doesn't take Firefox down with it.
> 
> I might have to try using the 64-bit version again, then.  It'd be
> delicious irony if it were more stable than the 32-bit version, lol.

Actually, 32-bit versus 64-bit has nothing to do with it. It's because 
he's using nspluginwrapper with 64-bit. The nice thing about that is that 
when flash crashes, it doesn't take out firefox. Many people use 
nspluginwrapper even on 32-bit for that reason....

later,
chris