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892 points todsacerdoti | 5 comments | 18 Sep 25 12:17 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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kokada ◴[18 Sep 25 13:05 UTC] No.45289160[source]▶
Hi folks, author here. Happy to answer questions.
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sho_hn ◴[18 Sep 25 13:13 UTC] No.45289267[source]▶
Plasma dev here, also happy to answer questions!
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The_President ◴[18 Sep 25 14:41 UTC] No.45290310[source]▶
What recommended long-term-support stable version release channels are available for Plasma?

edit: According to AI, LTS is not provided. Was my AI answer accurate, and if so is there consideration of an initiative to implement an LTS channel?

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sho_hn ◴[18 Sep 25 15:15 UTC] No.45290718[source]▶
Canonical provides commercial support for Plasma on Ubuntu last time I checked :)
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1. The_President ◴[18 Sep 25 15:20 UTC] No.45290769[source]▶
After reading your reply, I plugged the exact question of my text into an LLM and it answered my question perfectly. Your answer was in the context of commercial support which wasn't in the question or answer.
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2. sho_hn ◴[18 Sep 25 15:22 UTC] No.45290785[source]▶
Well they're also famous for having an LTS version of Ubuntu as well (and coined the term), which I assumed you probably know with an LTS interest. But sorry I couldn't satisfy you!
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3. The_President ◴[18 Sep 25 15:30 UTC] No.45290885[source]▶
The distinct advantage of a KDE LTS support release is that it would be distro agnostic. Benefits being that it delegates maintenance and security updates for an LTS version to KDE away from the distro maintainers, and as a plus this provides greater appearance of continutity from KDE to the public.
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4. sho_hn ◴[18 Sep 25 15:41 UTC] No.45291035{3}[source]▶
I think I got confused by your "release channels" bit in the original comment, because I thought you were asking for distros which ship and support the Plasma LTS release, but I guess you're asking more whether we have an LTS release?

We did in fact have versions marked as LTS in the Plasma 5.x generation, but the concept never quite worked that well practice (e.g. because distros generally shipped newer versions based on user demand and didn't really adopt the LTS releases, even for their own LTS distro releases, so the benefit calculation for them was different from your expectation) and we haven't kept them for the Plasma 6.x series. You can read some background here:

https://pointieststick.com/2025/05/01/notes-from-the-graz-pl...

It might come back some day in some form, but the discussion is ongoing.

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5. The_President ◴[18 Sep 25 16:01 UTC] No.45291295{4}[source]▶
Thanks for your detailed reply.