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  new Ubuntu version released Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2014-04-17 17:09 -0700
    Re: new Ubuntu version released Knute Johnson <eternal@knutejohnson.com> - 2014-04-18 00:51 -0700
      Re: new Ubuntu version released Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2014-04-18 03:30 -0700
        Re: new Ubuntu version released Andreas Leitgeb <avl@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2014-04-18 18:52 +0000
          Re: new Ubuntu version released Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2014-04-18 21:33 +0200
    Re: new Ubuntu version released Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2014-04-17 21:14 -0400
    Re: new Ubuntu version released Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2014-04-18 10:13 +0200
    Re: new Ubuntu version released Silvio <silvio@internet.com> - 2014-04-18 10:41 +0200

#28121 — new Ubuntu version released

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is out. Triskadecaphobians skipped a version.
-- 
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com
"Don't worry about people stealing an idea; if it's original, you'll
 have to shove it down their throats." 
~ Howard Aiken (born: 1900-03-08 died: 1973-03-14 at age: 73)

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#28123

On 4/17/2014 17:09, Roedy Green wrote:
> Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is out. Triskadecaphobians skipped a version.
>

You must of lost a whole year because they had 13.04 and 13.10 :-)

That Canadian beer can be tough.

-- 

Knute Johnson

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#28129

On Fri, 18 Apr 2014 00:51:38 -0700, Knute Johnson
<eternal@knutejohnson.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone
who said :

>
>You must of lost a whole year because they had 13.04 and 13.10 :-)

I wrote a program called Vercheck that each day probes the websites of
all the software I use or consider important. That is why I am usually
the first one to notice a new JDK. It looks  for strings or regexes on
some vendor web page. 

see http://mindprod.com/applet/vercheck.html

 Vendors don't make this easy. They leave references to old version in
place when they add new ones.

I wish there were a standard page on every website that in a standard
format listed their products, the version, and the release date.
That way detecting updates would be a snap.

A similar page would list all their redirects so you could use it to
automatically patch links to them on your own website.  Oracle is
terrible about redirects.  They just dump them all to a common page.
It would be really nice if there were a link on a 1.7 page to the
corresponding 1.8 page.
 
Sometimes I have to look on third party sites.

I gather what happened is Ubuntu left the exact same references to
version 12 I look for in place when they released 13.  Perhaps I can
concoct a "but not" regex that guesses what the future version number
will be.
-- 
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com
"Don't worry about people stealing an idea; if it's original, you'll
 have to shove it down their throats." 
~ Howard Aiken (born: 1900-03-08 died: 1973-03-14 at age: 73)

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#28130

Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Apr 2014 00:51:38 -0700, Knute Johnson said :
>>You must of lost a whole year because they had 13.04 and 13.10 :-)
> I wrote a program called Vercheck that each day probes the websites of
> all the software I use or consider important. That is why I am usually
> the first one to notice a new JDK. It looks  for strings or regexes on
> some vendor web page. 

Maybe, you're only tracking the LTS releases?  They're typically
every 3 or 4 normal releases, so it's not unlikely, that year 2013
did not see any new LTS.

(LTS: Long Term Support)

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#28131

On Fri, 18 Apr 2014 18:52:25 +0000 (UTC), Andreas Leitgeb wrote:

> Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> wrote:
>> On Fri, 18 Apr 2014 00:51:38 -0700, Knute Johnson said :
>>>You must of lost a whole year because they had 13.04 and 13.10 :-)
>> I wrote a program called Vercheck that each day probes the websites of
>> all the software I use or consider important. That is why I am usually
>> the first one to notice a new JDK. It looks  for strings or regexes on
>> some vendor web page. 
> Maybe, you're only tracking the LTS releases?  They're typically
> every 3 or 4 normal releases, so it's not unlikely, that year 2013
> did not see any new LTS.

> (LTS: Long Term Support)

That would make sense - indeed there is no LTS 13, as LTS editions are
released only every 2 years, and they picked the even years, so 10, 12 and
14.

Liebe Gruesse,
		Joerg

-- 
Ich lese meine Emails nicht, replies to Email bleiben also leider
ungelesen.

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#28124

On 4/17/2014 8:09 PM, Roedy Green wrote:
> Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is out. Triskadecaphobians skipped a version.

Have they rewritten it in Java or?

:-)

Arne

PS: They did not skip a version 13.10 do exist.

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#28126

On Thu, 17 Apr 2014 17:09:04 -0700, Roedy Green wrote:

> Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is out. Triskadecaphobians skipped a version.

In addition to what the others said, Ubuntu versions are named after the
year they come out, so this one was always going to be 14 ;)

Liebe Gruesse,
		Joerg

-- 
Ich lese meine Emails nicht, replies to Email bleiben also leider
ungelesen.

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#28127

On 04/18/2014 02:09 AM, Roedy Green wrote:
> Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is out. Triskadecaphobians skipped a version.
>

Luckily they did not. After having messed around with many different 
Linux distros on both desktop and servers the last years I have settled 
down on Ubuntu. Each new release has been an improvement over the 
previous one and that includes the 13.xx versions.

But 14.04 was such a major step forward that I have moved up to the 
first beta months ago. Never regretted that! Good to see the release is 
there. Congrats to Ubuntu!

Anyone running Ubuntu should really upgrade, it is really worth it. And 
an LTS release to boot.

And unless Java developers using Windows have a really good reason to be 
on Windows (are there good reasons for that?) this might be the time to 
consider a switch :)

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