1. Faster and predictable release cadence. New releases every six months, April and October (hence x.04 and x.10). New LTS releases every April on even years (26.04, 28.04, 30.04, etc).

2. The LTS releases are supported by Canonical for at least five years on the free tier, and up to fifteen years with paid support contracts.

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icedchai 4 hours ago | parent [-]

For #2, they are clearly not "supported" in a timely manner if we're waiting 2+ weeks for a patch.

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chungy 4 hours ago | parent [-]

You can argue that Canonical isn't upholding their end to provide security support, exactly what TFA is all about.

It's still a pretty basic reason businesses might calculate that Ubuntu is a good fit.

	▲	strenholme 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Agreed. Two weeks is pathetic. But, yes, I went over to Ubuntu because they were supposed to provide five years of security updated. When I interviewed with them a couple of years ago, I got the sense there was a lot broken with their culture. It was the best choice back when RedHat/CentOS stopped providing long term security updates, but now that Rocky Linux is around, it’s getting to be time to jump ship again.
	▲	icedchai 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Also, almost every other time I upgrade Ubuntu, it's a shit show. I've seen the renaming of network interfaces, loss of default routes, systemd jobs that take several minutes to timeout... It's like rolling the dice. All the problems were fixable, but still an annoyance.