Re: debian lenny support time
On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 09:38:37 -0400 (EDT), Israel Garcia wrote:
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> Do you know the support time for debian lenny?
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by that. First of all, you need
to define what "support" means. It will receive support for security
fixes as long as it remains the stable release, and probably for some
time after it becomes oldstable. Usually, the security team drops
support for oldstable shortly before the current testing release
becomes the stable release. There is no announced timetable for this,
but historically the mean time between releases has been about two
years, give or take a few months.
If what you mean is a commercial support contract, Debian itself,
as an organization, does not offer commercial support. Commercial
support is sometimes available from third parties, such as a hardware
vendor which pre-installs Debian. One can also negotiate a support
contract from an independent consultant.
If what you mean is informal support, from mailing lists such as this,
it has no official start or end. If you can find someone on the
list who is willing and able to answer your question, you have support.
If you can't, then you don't.
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