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Members of the Ubuntu technical Board of Directors, Scott James remnant sets proposal be a model release Ubuntu rolling release is a stable version is present every month. He has released it on the blog, so that it can be discussed together.

The current version of Ubuntu with time took six months per distribution. The new version was released in April and October each year. The version of Ubuntu is the support time for 18 months, with the exception of the LTS (long-term support) support for three years for the desktop version and five years for servers.

Model releases are accepted as follows, so that Ubuntu could predict user and OEM (original equipment manufacturer). Also as a response from the length of time of the release of “parent” Ubuntu, Debian.

But as it is known, the Ubuntu version has also a problem, we suppose, it is a software component, which is not the final version, but was forced, in the version. Also applications that have proved to be more stable has been removed in the next release and replaced with the application from it resulted is still “immature”, a negative view is a lot of new features that look promising, had to but before the really ready to publish.

Proposed model is similar to the model release of chrome and Firefox. Is it an alpha version, beta, and release. Alpha release for developers/Developer Beta user, the examination and approval for the stable version.

In addition let encounter the problems per month for such a complex piece of software that remain compatible out of the Ubuntu environment. For example, there are users who want to run three or four versions, including the release of alpha and beta, are third-party developers, test, and give another application to all versions of the package?

Is still a debate, if per month as follows a la Ubuntu so far really solve the ugliness of the versions for six months model release. How in the future, we are waiting for. (via Ars Technica)