In reply to Knut Sparhell.

You have very wierd definition of LTS. By this definition windows XP was an LTS release up to about a years ago.

LTS is about more than having security patches somewhere, it is also about the ease of installing them, and in the case of wordpress it is just hard and you probably have to do it manually. More then that LTS releases in linux world have also a repository from which you can download programs that will work with your release, something that is not even a pipe dream in the case of wordpress.