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Ubuntu to halve support length for non-LTS releases

In a meeting of the Ubuntu Technical Board, the technical leadership of Canonical’s Linux distribution decided to halve the support time for non-LTS releases to nine months. At the same time, the developers want to make it easier for users of the distribution to get up-to-date packages on a regular basis without the need to perform explicit upgrades of the whole distribution

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