From 2d1d8fe10353edff808794bef79c7064f313f7f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tianon Gravi Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 12:14:25 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Add a short blurb to explain what "ubuntu:rolling" is --- ubuntu/content.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/ubuntu/content.md b/ubuntu/content.md index 8231ffc7a..67a5408a6 100644 --- a/ubuntu/content.md +++ b/ubuntu/content.md @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Development of Ubuntu is led by UK-based Canonical Ltd., a company owned by Sout This image is built from official rootfs tarballs provided by Canonical (specifically, https://partner-images.canonical.com/core/). -The `ubuntu:latest` tag points to the "latest LTS", since that's the version recommended for general use. +The `ubuntu:latest` tag points to the "latest LTS", since that's the version recommended for general use. The `ubuntu:rolling` tag points to the latest release (regardless of LTS status). Along a similar vein, the `ubuntu:devel` tag is an alias for whichever release the "devel" suite on the mirrors currently points to, as determined by the following one-liner: `wget -qO- http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/devel/Release | awk -F ': ' '$1 == "Codename" { print $2; exit }'`