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Roedy Green
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is out. Triskadecaphobians skipped a version.
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Arne Vajhøj
Have they rewritten it in Java or?
Arne
PS: They did not skip a version 13.10 do exist.
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Knute Johnson
You must of lost a whole year because they had 13.04 and 13.10
That Canadian beer can be tough.
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Joerg Meier
In addition to what the others said, Ubuntu versions are named after the
year they come out, so this one was always going to be 14
Liebe Gruesse,
Joerg
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Silvio
Luckily they did not. After having messed around with many different
Linux distros on both desktop and servers the last years I have settled
down on Ubuntu. Each new release has been an improvement over the
previous one and that includes the 13.xx versions.
But 14.04 was such a major step forward that I have moved up to the
first beta months ago. Never regretted that! Good to see the release is
there. Congrats to Ubuntu!
Anyone running Ubuntu should really upgrade, it is really worth it. And
an LTS release to boot.
And unless Java developers using Windows have a really good reason to be
on Windows (are there good reasons for that?) this might be the time to
consider a switch
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Roedy Green
You must of lost a whole year because they had 13.04 and 13.10
I wrote a program called Vercheck that each day probes the websites of
all the software I use or consider important. That is why I am usually
the first one to notice a new JDK. It looks for strings or regexes on
some vendor web page.
see http://mindprod.com/applet/vercheck.html
Vendors don't make this easy. They leave references to old version in
place when they add new ones.
I wish there were a standard page on every website that in a standard
format listed their products, the version, and the release date.
That way detecting updates would be a snap.
A similar page would list all their redirects so you could use it to
automatically patch links to them on your own website. Oracle is
terrible about redirects. They just dump them all to a common page.
It would be really nice if there were a link on a 1.7 page to the
corresponding 1.8 page.
Sometimes I have to look on third party sites.
I gather what happened is Ubuntu left the exact same references to
version 12 I look for in place when they released 13. Perhaps I can
concoct a "but not" regex that guesses what the future version number
will be.
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Andreas Leitgeb
Roedy Green said:
Maybe, you're only tracking the LTS releases? They're typically
every 3 or 4 normal releases, so it's not unlikely, that year 2013
did not see any new LTS.
(LTS: Long Term Support)
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Joerg Meier
That would make sense - indeed there is no LTS 13, as LTS editions are
released only every 2 years, and they picked the even years, so 10, 12 and
14.
Liebe Gruesse,
Joerg