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[Chris Bell]

On Fri 06 Feb, John Edwards wrote:

> 
> 
> In the past it seemed a long time because it was a long time between
> Debian stable releases. Now they seem to be aiming at 2 to 2.5 years
> it is only about 3 years of security support, which is very low
> compared to the lifetime of a typical server. Ubuntu LTS releases
> have 5 years of server support (for free), and I think RedHat/SuSE
> commercial products offer 7 years.
> 
> Debian has many advantages, but I don't think long term support is
> one of them.
> 
   But they do make updating an existing system to the next as easy as
possible, and in the event of problems installing the latest distribution
they even suggest upgrading from an earlier version.




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