For the record: * Mir development has little relationship with LTS releases. It will still be developed, but it hasn't been default yet, and it's not planned to have it as default for 14.04 either. Even if it does become default, it has been carefully planned to transparently fallback to X, when Mir is not possible. In a similar fashion, how we have automatic fallback graphics mode, when things go wrong.
* By default on the www.ubuntu.com website we promote Ubuntu LTS release for download, which has 5 years of support on the Desktop. * Windows XP expire date has been raised before. That sofware has been obsolete for a long time. Users of that software, have already been ignoring the upgrade warnings, thus it's not expected for them to be upgrade savvy. We are confident that 12.04 LTS is a great improvement to Windows XP users, which will be supported for 3 years after XP EOL. Furthermore, some of the hardware typically supported by Windows XP machines (i386, non-PAE) are only supported with 12.04 LTS. Do note that 13.10 defaults to 64-bit images (amd64). * Technically, it might be non-trivial to change support life cycle of a given release, since support status of packages is published in the archive metadata, which is GPG signed and is frozen at release and not changed. (as in "raring" suit never changes, "raring-*" do change throughout the support lifetime of a realease to provide security and bugfix updates). For similar reasons, we also rejected the idea to shifting 14.04 LTS release dates, based around Windows XP expiry dates. Also note, this is not the first time "Windows XP" was declared EOL, the dates have been pushed back before by Microsoft and it may happen again. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1245870 Title: Ubuntu 13.10 should be upgraded to LTS status To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-meta/+bug/1245870/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
