On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 12:15:45AM +0200, Sythos wrote: > > And that's 2 years less for LTS ... especially in bigger Setup's > > LTS-Support is mandatory so there (because there is no Debian LTS's) > > Debian cannot be used due to the lack of Support. Instead - Redhat > > or Ubuntu or any other distribution with LTS-Support is used there. > > 3 years of direct support of "stable" and so 1-2 years of "oldstable" > support mean a amount of 4-5 years, please define again what you mean > for LTS...
Debian's goal is to have an 18 month release cycle. stable becomes oldstable when the next version is released, and oldstable is supported for 1 year. That's 28 months. Where do you get the idea of 3 years of direct support as stable? Those days are (hopefully) long gone. noah
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