Re: Is oldstable security support duration something to be proud of?
Maybe I'm wrong, I don't hold the truth. But I see Debian under a totally
different perspective than other distros. More of a philosophical stand
(reminiscent of Richard Stallman ideas about free software). This, of
course, is a work in progress with up and down days/seasons --whatever.
That some corporations/business use Debian, well cool--man they are saving
some mula. I also see all this as a way to empower users so computing
does not become (forever) an elitist endeavor.
Still CentOS feels (note "feel") kinda like cheating ("white branded"
seems a fashionable term) since it seems to me that the parent distro
would not allow this if they could.
So it is more than free as in "free beer". It goes beyond this. It is a
philosophical and moral stand.
On Sat, March 15, 2008 11:30 pm, Filipus Klutiero wrote:
> On March 15, 2008 08:14:48 am Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 04:13:43PM -0400, Filipus Klutiero wrote:
>> > RHEL and derivatives: 7 years
>>
>> RHEL does offer support for 7 years, but that's paid-for support. Notice
>> that you *cannot* use official RHEL updates without paying for it
>> (up2date
>> requires a paid subscription to Red Hat's Network).
> Yes, I obviously made an error there, it should be "Free RHEL
> derivatives",
> and maybe even "CentOS", not "RHEL and derivatives".
>> You can get
>> white-branded distributions based on RHEL (such as Whitebox linux) but
>> those do not provide *any* security support. You can also upgrade from
>> third-party repositories, but that's not official security support.
> The most popular derivative, CentOS, does provide security support.
>
>
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-JM.
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