Ubuntu – Do I lose LTS support if I upgrade to a non-LTS release

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I have been using Ubuntu since 8.04 as my primary OS and every six months I upgrade to the latest distribuition release. I am currently using 12.04 LTS.

Thinking ahead, if I upgrade to 12.10 or any other future release, do I lose the Long-Term support (LTS)?

This may be a stupid question as I found part of my answer in this link .

Best Answer

Yes

Once you upgrade to 12.10, you will no longer be running 12.04, and no longer running an LTS release.

The purpose of the LTS releases if for those who don't necessarily need the absolute most up-to-date packages, and would rather not upgrade every 6 months, but still get critical security updates and bug fixes for longer than the 18 months of support given to a standard (non-LTS) release.

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Ubuntu – How to suppress the “New release ‘12.10’ available” message

The other answers aren't quite right, but combining them put me on the right track.

/etc/update-manager/release-upgrades controls what updates you'll be notified about. /usr/lib/update-manager/release-upgrade-motd generates the "update available" message. The problem is that release-upgrade-motd caches the message, which means that once it's been generated, changing /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades doesn't get rid of the message.

So the answer is:

Tell Update Manager what releases you want to be notified about.
sudo rm /var/lib/update-notifier/release-upgrade-available to get rid of the cached message.

Note: For version 13.04 (and later), the path has changed. So point 2. to get rid of the cached message is now:

sudo rm /var/lib/ubuntu-release-upgrader/release-upgrade-available

Best Answer

Yes

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