[565] in athena10
Re: lynx library problem on Athena 10
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman)
Thu Oct 9 15:46:24 2008
From: Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
Cc: tabbott@mit.edu, wdc@mit.edu, athena10@mit.edu
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:45:54 -0400
In-Reply-To: <200810091933.m99JX8fI008819@dit.mit.edu> (Alex T. Prengel's
message of "Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:33:08 -0400")
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>>>>> "Alex" == Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU> writes:
Alex> One major concern I have about this is that if we only
Alex> update the athena10 base OS when Ubuntu LTS releases come
Alex> out, many packages are likely to get severely out of
Alex> date. I'd feel much better about this if we could use the
Alex> regular, 6 month interval Ubuntu releases for athena10.
>> When evaluating this, I'd suggest that you examine the release
>> history for the software that you are adding to the release. I
>> suspect that in many cases LTS releases will be more frequent
>> updates.
Alex> I'm not quite sure what you mean by "in many cases LTS
In many cases I think LTS releases will provide more frequent updates than we have typically done to locker software.
