support schedule for ZorisOS Lite

as I understand it from Ubuntu's wiki page, LTS releases get 5 year support for Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and server, but the others (like Lubuntu) get 3 year support. Since Lite is based on Lubuntu, does it get 3 year support? Our company is trying to decide between Kubuntu and ZorinOS and the Zorin wins if it's got 5 year support

Hi,

Zorin OS is based on Ubuntu and as such, whatever Ubuntu offer in terms of support, reflects on Zoin OS, the next LTS releases of Zorin (version 9 & version 9 Lite/Ubuntu 14.04/Lubuntu 14.04) will both be LTS and supported until 2019:

http://www.ubuntu.com/info/release-end-of-life

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

I hope that answers your question!.

I can't say it does answer my question, though I do appreciate your help. If you look at the link I provided initially, you'll see it says that the 5 year only applies to Ubuntu and other flavors dictate their own support (i.e. not necessarily what Ubuntu does). In turn if you look at the release notes for Lubuntu's Trusty, which is an LTS, you can see (as I said), it offers 3 year support. So with that in mind, ZorinOS Lite 9 will have only 3 year support, correct?

Hi,

I stand corrected, Lubuntu is indeed only 3 years LTS!.

Zorin OS follows Ubuntu; so whatever Ubuntu decide to do in terms of support, Zorin OS will do the same!.

So to summarize:
* ZorinOS: 5 years support (assuming an LTS base)
* ZorinOS Lite: 3 years (assuming an LTS base)

thanks!

I assumed (foolish me) that when I first heard that Lubuntu was going LTS, it would have the same length of support as Ubuntu!.