Add a short blurb to explain what "ubuntu:rolling" is

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Tianon Gravi 2017-04-26 12:14:25 -07:00
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@ -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 }'`