-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear Thiemo,
Thiemo Nagel wrote: > However if that is the case, I wonder if oldstable support could be > extended for some more time. > > I know that all the work is done by volunteers and I'm very grateful for > what they do. Still I think that especially in the sector of > institutional use, the popularity of Debian could be improved by > offering longer support cycles. I don't think Debian should go as far > as Microsoft does (10 years of support for Windows 2000), but 5 years of > support in my opinion would be more suited to the typical upgrade [*] > cycles in large organisations. [**] IMHO, the companies, organisations and scenarios you mention can not be compared to what Debian does. IMHO Debian's support cycle is rather long, but what is the *real* difference is that Debian supports 'on the fly' upgrades without reinstalling and typically with a single reboot (to boot the new kernel version). A typical Debian upgrade will lead to a downtime on the order of a few minutes once every 2 years, compared to tedious manual reinstallation required on other systems. It is straightforward to semi-automatically upgrade some 100 machines via ssh without ever touching the machines and it will only take a rather short time of actual work. I don't really understand, why you want to reinstall instead of upgrading your machines, if you think that this is too much effort. Personally, I very much prefer the debian way to any of the alternatives you mention. Thanks and cudos to the developers for their great work!!! Cheers, Johannes [NB: I won't mention here that the support cycles of some versions of M$ have been extended for the sole reason that the quality of later versions was so poor that many customers (especially corporate) refused to upgrade. ] - -- Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktaJmoACgkQC1NzPRl9qEWTggCfZEt2sz9VK+c1gpr+HuzG5W0g XEIAn2lxPnojPP8WIOpUfmWS9005iLZe =oiDU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
