20th February 2017, 14:24
I think i'm going to have to sleep on this & read it all again tomorrow to try to understand... coz at the moment i do not understand [there seems to be basic contradictions]. MY attraction to Maui, instead of staying with Mint, was (i thought] that for x years the Ubuntu base would be "stable" at 16.04* LTS, whereas Plasma was not LTS but Rolling [as evidenced by the several Plasma upgrades i've received, via the enabled Backports]. But Rocky described a "rolling update train" ... i just can't grasp this concept; how can it [the Ubuntu base] be simultaneously LTS and Rolling?
* Maybe i'm wrong, but my interpretation/assumption of this meaning was that my system would remain 16.04.x & not become [eg] 16.10, 17.04 etc, BUT that the "x" meant my system would [via repos & Update Manager] still receive "point releases", eg, 16.04.1, 16.04.2, etc [without me having to do anything special]. However the info in this thread seems to overturn all or most of what i'd thought applicable to my Maui, given it seems that i will need to make active decisions about whether i do or don't want the point releases, & if i do, then i have to manually invoke them. This is not what i'd expected.
* Maybe i'm wrong, but my interpretation/assumption of this meaning was that my system would remain 16.04.x & not become [eg] 16.10, 17.04 etc, BUT that the "x" meant my system would [via repos & Update Manager] still receive "point releases", eg, 16.04.1, 16.04.2, etc [without me having to do anything special]. However the info in this thread seems to overturn all or most of what i'd thought applicable to my Maui, given it seems that i will need to make active decisions about whether i do or don't want the point releases, & if i do, then i have to manually invoke them. This is not what i'd expected.