On Wednesday 23 February 2011 12:53:39 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mi, 23 feb 11, 17:01:41, Camaleón wrote: > > (effective > > Debian support for releases is about 2 years). > > By your numbers it's about 4 years (2 years as stable and 2 years as > oldstable), but in fact it's only about 3 years (aprox. 2 years as > stable and 1 year as oldstable). If you need longer support, and Ubuntu LTS is derived from Debian packaging and supported for 5 years on "servers". SLED/SLES and RHEL might provide that length of support as well, but they are not derived from Debian packages. However, any of these solutions will be rather limiting as far as which packages get support. Debian supports all of main at the same level. Debian usually supports contrib at the same level, but the Depends/Recommends on non- free make things difficult at times. Of course, much of non-free is largely unsupportable, due to the inability to view / modify the source code. The Ubuntu support is only main/restricted not universe/multiverse. SLES/SLED have a fairly complex support matrix, but intentionally don't include less popular or non-"core" packages; this leaves users to get many packages from semi-official or completely unofficial projects on the OBS. I've not looked too hard into the support profile for RHEL, but I imagine it as similar to SLES/SLED. Debian is the best, most free distribution out there, in part because of the excellent support provided by DDs. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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