On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:33:45 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Wednesday 23 February 2011 12:53:39 Andrei Popescu wrote: >> On Mi, 23 feb 11, 17:01:41, Camaleón wrote: >> > (effective >> > Debian support for releases is about 2 years). >> >> By your numbers it's about 4 years (2 years as stable and 2 years as >> oldstable), but in fact it's only about 3 years (aprox. 2 years as >> stable and 1 year as oldstable). > > If you need longer support, and Ubuntu LTS is derived from Debian > packaging and supported for 5 years on "servers".
I don't see my self with Ubuntu/Canonical. > SLED/SLES and RHEL > might provide that length of support as well, but they are not derived > from Debian packages. Novell (SLES/SLED owner) is now almost dead (as company, not their linux distribution) because of the buyout by Attachmate which should be finishes in a few weeks. And openSUSE (which I left a year ago) has a short-term release cycle and support (18 months). There is a new effort in making a long-term supported openSUSE distribution by means of the Evergreen project. RedHat (or CentOS) sounds interesting, but I prefer to keep Debian. (...) > Debian is the best, most free distribution out there, in part because of > the excellent support provided by DDs. Yes, it can sound a bit strange but having no company behind the distribution seems to me like a big "plus" :-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.02.23.20.05...@gmail.com
