I was discussing Ubuntu releases, where the first number is the year.
Which, unless my nap was much longer than I thought, means 17.* and
18.* haven't been released yet. It is likely (but never decided ahead
of time) that 18.04 will be the next in the LTS series.
If you're looking for information on Ubuntu releases: https://wiki.ubun
tu.com/Releases
Ted
On Fri, 2016-06-24 at 16:24 +0000, Carruth, Rusty wrote:
> Hmm. Actually, 17.* and 18 are all LTS’s, with 17.* supported till
> April 2019, and 18 supported to April 2021.
>  
> Of course, 18 is only in Beta right now, so 17.* (currently 17.3 is
> the latest 17 variant) is the best choice.
>  
> Weird thing is that the mint site doesn’t mention 16 in its LTS
> list.  Not that it might not be LTS, I don’t know (could have sworn I
> skipped 16 because it wasn’t LTS, but then maybe I’m thinking about
> 15 – which I thought was already unsupported today.  Oh, well,
> whatever J - the point is that if you install Mint, make sure it’s an
> LTS release, and that it is supported for some reasonable distance
> into the future)
>  
> Rusty
>  
> From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org [mailto:plug-discuss-bo
> unces@lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Ted Gould
> Sent: Friday, June 24, 2016 7:29 AM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org
> Subject: Re: IgnitionDeck help
>  
> On Thu, 2016-06-23 at 17:29 -0700, unixprgrmr01@gmail.com wrote:
> I of course need help on a Linux platform (Ubuntu 15.10)
>  
> I know nothing about IgnitionDeck or Wordpress, but please please
> don't deploy anything on Ubuntu 15.10, it is only supported until
> next month. 16.04 LTS is a much better choice for anything you expect
> to continue into August.
>  
> Ted
>