Ubuntu Pro: How does the updating process work? [migrated]
Ubuntu and its flavors (Lubuntu, etc.) now have a Pro feature (free for personal use) that provide security patches for basically all common software (over 20,000 packages), for several years in long-term support releases.
I’m not sure how it works though. It sounds like there’s a team of developers paid by Canonical that will try to fix security bugs as soon as possible, providing patches faster than the original software developers or the original repo maintainers. If so, then Ubuntu might have become significantly more secure than other free distros.
However it all depends on how this Pro feature actually works. For example, if the Canonical team just waited for the official patches from the original developers, then the overall security would be equivalent to that of a rolling release distro (basically achieving rolling-release security on a fixed-release LTS distro).
So the question is: how does this Pro feature work in Ubuntu, and how does it compare with the security of other free distributions, in terms of security updates?
