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By Juergen Haas, About.com

Long-Term Support

Every Ubuntu release is supported for at least 18 months with security and other updates. Ubuntu 6.06 LTS is a special enterprise-ready release, and is supported for 3 years on the desktop, and 5 years on the server. The development process of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS was slightly longer than usual to concentrate on a number of areas:

  • Quality Assurance

  • Localisation

  • Certification

As a result, it will be possible to rely on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS for a longer period than usual. Therefore this release of Ubuntu is referred to as "LTS" or "Long-Term Support".

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