lts

What is LTS (Long Term Support)?

I looked it up in Wikipedia, and there is only one line there. Anyone have a more detail description for it. Ubuntu releases their OS with this notation, but I was unable to find a detailed descripton over what it means/includes. I've already read the Ubuntu notation but need a more general description, not how Ubuntu has implemented it....

Ubuntu LTS vs regular release

Hi, I was wondering, what is the difference between the LTS (Long Term Support) and the regular versions of Ubuntu? I know, the LTS releases are supported 3 and 5 years (desktop and server), but what difference does it make e.g. if I use 8.10? Is it possible, in a couple of years I won't get any security updates for 8.10, only for 8.04...

What is the difference between a liveness and a progress property?

Hi all.. I know this is a very academic question, but I was hoping someone here could help me get an answer. I'm taking a concurrency class in which we use LTS'es and FLTL's. In one of our assignments a question is given: "Give an example of a liveness property, expressed as an FLTL formula, that cannot be expressed as a progress prope...