Ubuntu's first 'Long Term Support (LTS' rev in almost 23 months was pushed out the door this week along with the promise that another LTS rev would follow every two years from now on out and in between there would be point releases first at the three-month mark and then every six month after that. Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth borrowed Intel's 'Tick Tock' metaphor to explain Ubuntu's plans. The only thing that would upset the planned schedule, he said, would be if other major distributions aligned their releases.