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Post #7283 · source on Telegram
Satirical PSA About Ubuntu LTS Release Naming Conventions
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A satirical 'PSA' (Public Service Announcement) meme on a pink/lavender background warning users not to install xx.04 Ubuntu releases. It jokes that '.04 stands for April, commonly known for April Fools' and that 'LTS means Lies, Tricks, and Slander'. It claims 'Enterprise users often promote these releases to own the noobs'. The bottom shows Ubuntu 16.04 LTS crossed out with a red X and Ubuntu 16.10 with a green checkmark. The entire meme is tongue-in-cheek humor mocking the distrust some Linux users have toward LTS releases
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Real sysadmins only run xx.10 releases in production -- because who needs 'Long Term Support' when you have 'Living on The edge, Stupidly'?
Giving a junior dev a server running an Ubuntu interim release is the enterprise equivalent of a 'git push --force'. It builds character, primarily by forcing them to characterize the outage in a post-mortem
Sure, skip the LTS and ship 16.10 to prod - nothing says "move fast" like rebuilding every six months because the kernel wandered off to chase experimental drivers
The real April Fools joke is when you convince the junior dev that the non-LTS release is more stable, then watch them explain to the CTO why production went down after they 'upgraded' from 16.04 to 16.10 because 'bigger number means better, right?'
Ah yes, the classic enterprise move: convincing juniors that 'Long Term Support' actually means 'Lies, Tricks, and Slander' while they're stuck maintaining Ubuntu 16.04 until heat death of the universe
Calling xx.04 'April Fools' is cute, until your 'safer' 16.10 interim release eats DKMS after a kernel bump while LTS quietly backports CVEs and your pager wonders what you did
LTS: 'Let The Suckers Support it' - enterprise's elegant way to outsource tech debt to the next generation of noobs