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). 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. If you want to compare Debian with free distributions you should have included Fedora, not RHEL. And Fedora's security support is nowhere near 7 years. > Debian is somewhat better than openSUSE, equal or slightly worst than Ubuntu > and definitely worst than RHEL and derivatives. So on average, Debian is > somewhat worst than its main alternatives in this aspect. IMO one shouldn't > show off unless being at least a bit above average. If you take off RHEL "and derivatives" from the equation (which you should do as RHEL's security support is not free and the derivatives don't hold 7 year support) Debian is not worst on average to other free (as in beer) distributions. Regards Javier
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