On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 03:42:17PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Ubuntu supports each release for 18 > months, even though they release every 6 months.
Correction: they *claim* they will support each release for 18 months. I can not only do that, I can call forth spirits from the vasty deep[0]. We have yet to see whether they can deliver, and how badly they're going to multilate their definition of 'support' once some real customers start using it (anything on the scale provided by somebody like IBM or Redhat is an absurdity, given their comparative resources; 'real customers' excludes anybody who would deploy a platform that's less than six months old, since they'll have test cycles at least that long, so they can't have any using it yet). The track record of software companies is not good at this sort of thing. They usually start telling customers to upgrade once the support requests begin piling up, or redefine "support" to mean "handholding, not programmer time". Ubuntu should not be used as an example of an alternative way to make releases before they actually demonstrate that they can do it, at the very least. [0] Henry IV, Part 1, Act 3, Scene 1. Go look it up. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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