Why Ubuntu 14.04 LTS It’s all in the LTS – Long Term Support provided by the Ubuntu folks. 14.04 LTS is supported until 2019. The LTS helps us support CounterSnipe Software in a steady and stable way. The LTS enables us to offer support and maintenance contracts for 3 years The 16.04 version will be available in 2017 but other than some hardware drivers we do not expect much change in IDS/IPS performance resulting from this change. We do not use any features of Ubuntu itself. From the horse's mouth: "Furthermore, we define the LTS to be:
and clearly state that it is not: A Feature-Based Release: We will focus on hardening functionality of existing features, versus introducing new ones" |