Ubuntu's Release Cycle and Its Partner Impact | Linux Today

Ubuntu’s Release Cycle and Its Partner Impact

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Joe Panettieri
Mar 11, 2013

Daylight savings just began, which means it’s the time of year to start looking forward to the spring release of Ubuntu. But could this year’s version, 13.04, be the last one in the biannual release cycle that Canonical has stalwartly maintained for almost a decade? For the moment, that remains uncertain, but the issue, which has produced a stunning amount of debate, could have ramifications well beyond the Ubuntu ecosystem.

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Joe Panettieri

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