Filipus Klutiero wrote: > Le March 1, 2008 04:03:28 am Frank Lichtenheld, vous avez écrit : >> On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 03:47:27AM -0500, Filipus Klutiero wrote: >>> Since Red Hat releases at least each 3 years, that means Red Hat commits >>> to supporting its "oldstables" for at least 4 years, which is much more >>> than 1 year. >>> >>> IMO, more than 4 years is too much. But comparing to that, it's hard to >>> be proud of under 1 year. IMO it's OK, but not more. >> Comparing a commercial distro with expensive support contracts and a >> community distro doesn't make sense at all... > Perhaps, but then what about openSUSE (about 1.5 years), Ubuntu (1 year), > Ubuntu LTS (4.5 years) and CentOS (more than 4 years)? I can't compare with > Gentoo, and then we get to Slackware (which I don't know about). So in > general, Debian is worst than others. >> Either way, I don't think that debian-www is the right place to discuss >> this. I would suggest debian-project or debian-publicity. > > I'm convinced that there's no reason to be proud, so I see no need to discuss > it, unless you're confident that Debian should be proud. It can be removed > anyway on the grounds that our users don't need to know whether the project > is proud.
Can you please stop the fud, Debian releases have security support till one year *after the next release*, which is at least 2.5 years and not just 1 as you seem to imply... Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
