difference between Ubuntu 7.04 and 6.06 LTS!!??

Question

ok i am trying to decide which one is better 7.04 ubuntu or 6.06 LTS????

whats the difference except the support??? is there difference in applications and design and so on !!

please i really need help with this ~!!

Answer 1

7.04 is better, its much newer. higher number = newer,better

Answer 2

Other than support , essentially the difference is that 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) is more up to date and has greater hardware support, however, it can be a little more unstable. It contains some beta applications like Beryl (happens to work very well, even though it's beta) and applications that haven't been tested for long periods of time.

Ubuntu is a Debian based distro and as such it uses the Debian software repositories. Debian has three main branches of repositories. Stable, Sid (named after Sid in the movie Toy Story) and experimental. The long term support version of Ubuntu comes with only applications from the "stable" repositories (although you can add whatever you want after the fact), whereas, the the other version contains applications from the Sid repositories too.

Understand though, that the term "unstable" when talking about Debian repositories doesn't mean what it traditionally means. The applications are essentially very stable, it's just that they haven't been as extensively tested. Debian is very particular about that and an application has to jump through hoops before it goes to "stable" status. If a particular software is that is labeled "Stable" then gets significantly changed by the developers, then it reverts back to Sid status until it can again be labeled "stable". Being labeled "Sid" doesn't mean it isn't stable in the traditional sense. Most "Sid" applications are far more stable than most commercial software.

Basically, the long term support (stable) version is designed for corporate production environments where keeping the software (without version changes) for long periods of time is crucial. For everyone else, home users, enthusiasts. power users and developers, the Sid version is the far better choice. You also have much more up to date hardware support. If you're just trying out Linux, then get the 7.04 Feisty Fawn version.

Answer 3

for all intents and purposes they are not that different... the newer one does come with some updated software and features, but for the most part it is the same