Re: debian lenny support time
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 09:38:37 -0400 (EDT), Israel Garcia wrote:
>>
>> 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.
Hi Stephen
Yes, I meant security support... thanks
regards,
Israel.
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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Regards;
Israel Garcia
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