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Re: Ubuntu Versions (was: Re: Let's say you never want to upgrade from Lenny...)



In <[🔎] BANLkTi=99CW8HDkX1ozSM1g8Z+Y+Ay7EXw@mail.gmail.com>, Tom H wrote:
>On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
><bss@iguanasuicide.net> wrote:
>> Someone that doesn't necessarily want to upgrade on Debian's schedule.
>>  With Ubuntu, you can get 5 years, as opposed to Debian's ~3 years.  With
>> SLE* you can get 10 years.  I'm not sure about RHEL, but I think it is
>> roughly a SLE* timeframe.
>
>You can get 10 years with RHEL but 7 is standard.
>
>The first 4 have "full" support.
>
>The 5th hardware support is lessened.
>
>The 6th and 7th there are only updates for important security problems
>and bugs and there are no more SPs.

Ah.  That's almost exactly the SLES 10 schedule.  Thanks for the info!
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