The Ubuntu distribution does enjoy being in the the media spotlight, even at the risk of getting there as a result of a misunderstanding. Last week’s news about the distribution’s planned switch to a rolling-release development model was dispelled several days after the first rumours hit the Linux media. OMG! Ubuntu!'s Joey-Elijah Sneddon explains what happened:
I find it an interesting topic. If they’re able to do what Mozilla done with Firefox and be sure to have a beta version to test all apps/plugins and all that palava, and integrate the features as they become stable and ready for consumer use then I don’t see a problem. However, should they screw up, I’ll be moving distro.
On the topic of moving distro, should they change Ubuntu to arch-based or something like that, I’ll most definitely be switching distro.
I’m very much a debian-based user,
if that happens BKS a good place to turn will be solusOS it’s a debian based distro thats just a little more stable than lmde
http://solusos.com/
some thing i just started thinking about is if ubuntu goes rolling does linuxmint and the rest of the ubuntu based distros change
I figure they’d have to (or do a LOT more work in maintaining separate repos) … but then why wouldn’t they want to go semi-rolling (Ubuntu weren’t really talking about “proper” rolling) ?
To tell the truth, I couldn’t see much change as far as the LTS’s were concerned … effectively they’re just thinking of dropping non-LTS in favour of keeping the LTS’s software more updated … which I’d welcome, if when they bother.
guess you right mark LTS is a time restricted rolling release 
I upgraded my test server to 12.10 and it does indeed look to be the same as 12.04 … But! The number of subtle differences I found was extremely worrying.
My code for handling local sockets (named pipes) broke, as did message queues (ipcs) and the gdb’s changes broke all my debug scripts … and that was just the first day (!)
I.e. beware of spacemen bearing ‘upgrades’
I suspect some of this is down to changes in POSIX threads in the kernel … but still …
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My brothers laptop used to run SolusOS. For me, it was a little too out-dated, or at least the version he was running at the time.
I care just because I use Peppermint OS (based on Ubuntu) and I want to see what they are going to do with it along with Lubuntu, Kubuntu and Xubuntu.