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14.04 is too new. They probably started working on this long before 14.04 was finalized, and retooling would be expensive and slow them down. And even then, 14.04 is still rough around the edges--not all of the kinks have been discovered or fixed yet. 12.04 still has over three years of life left in it, which is much longer than the probable lifetime of GHE 2.0, and a future release of GHE can upgrade to 14.04 if and when that's necessary/beneficial.

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Right on, but tiny correction - 12.04 has over two years of life left, not three.

So a stable release is too unstable for them? And now the first thing users will have to do is after install, apply all the bug fix packages to bring it to 14.04. But that will bring no unstability concerns? Or will they just not patch it and expose themselves to the bugs in the name of stability?

That's incorrect. The way you apply bug fixes to 12.04 LTS is by installing the bug fixes, not by moving to 14.04. The whole point is that 12.04 LTS continues to get updates for 5 years.

It's not that it's unstable in an absolute sense – but it is a migration if they started building this prior to 14.04 release (highly likely). And migrations are always time-consuming and risky, even if it's a migration to an otherwise stable platform.

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