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I recently (on the first week of November 2014) upgraded from 14.04 to 14.10 and encountered some problems after it was all done.

Now that 2015 is just around the corner, will it be in any way mandatory to upgrade to 15.04?

Since I'm a newbie using Ubuntu (and my laptop is not the fastest machine), my questions are:

  • Will I necessarily have to upgrade to 15.04?

  • If 14.04 feels and works fine, do I have to keep the 14.04 .iso DVD I burned in a glass box just in case I want to reinstall because the Ubuntu download page will not offer the 14.04 in the future?

Byte Commander
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Carlos
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Ubuntu 14.10 will go End-of-Life on May, 2015. Support for the release will end, and updates will be sparse, perhaps.

On the otherhand, 14.04 is a long-term release, and will be supported and downloadable until April 2019

You can always stay on an old release, and possibly suffer from security issues or lack of updates, or you can go with Ubuntu 15 (which will be short term, only 6 to 12 months of support), or revert at some point to 14.04

Charles Green
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