Ubuntu 'Warty' to go unsupported on April 30 [LWN.net]

Ubuntu 'Warty' to go unsupported on April 30

Posted Mar 30, 2006 6:11 UTC (Thu) by sbergman27 (subscriber, #10767)
In reply to: Ubuntu 'Warty' to go unsupported on April 30 by proski
Parent article: Ubuntu 'Warty' to go unsupported on April 30

Well, my distro of choice, CentOS, gives me a great deal of flexibility along these lines. I have the option to upgrade every 18 months. But I don't have to upgrade more frequently than every 7 years. It's all my choice, and I can make that choice on a client by client, server by server basis.

I'm sure that Debian is a good distro.

But Debian proponents tend to have a very irritating habit of jumping into discussions with some one-liner that implies that Debian is Shangri-La.

And it just ain't so.

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Ubuntu 'Warty' to go unsupported on April 30

Posted Mar 30, 2006 20:17 UTC (Thu) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link]

Actually someone pointed out that upgrading Ubuntu (a word that was missing in that post) is not a reinstall. Rather it is a dist-upgrade in the good old Debian tradition.

BTW: it is actually RedHat[tm] that does most of the maintenance work of CentOS. And I must say I quite pity anybody still using the ancient RHEL/CentOS 2.x (basically equivalent to RH7.x).