LTS is Long Term Support, common for most OSes to continue supporting older versions for some amount of time (unless you're Windows...) and Canonical extended the window for another 5 years for their LTS releases meaning servers running on a release from 2020 will now have support until 2035, which is honestly insane for a release window.

Kinda makes sense though since most people will install Ubuntu on some server and not look at it again until they have an issue.

For context, .NET has an LTS release from 2023 that loses support in 2026 which means if you're using that runtime (.NET 8) and someone finds a bug/exploit in it in 2027, you're shit out of luck until you update to the newer version. Embedded Windows 11 has a LTS window of 10 years, and that's meant to be installed on like appliances that get jammed in a closet and forgot about.

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I install both the LTS and mainline kernels on my desktop so I can switch in case of bugs.

I thought the thumbnail was saying Ubuntu would destroy the fabric of the space time continuum, but I now understand that he means (hyperbolically) it will last until the end of the universe.

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 3 points 5 days ago

Clickbait with plausible deniability lol