The Debian treadmill

The Debian treadmill

Posted Jun 2, 2006 0:21 UTC (Fri) by dlang (subscriber, #313)
In reply to: The Debian treadmill by ballombe
Parent article: Ubuntu Dapper and the distribution business

the better thing to look at is how long a given release is supported after the next release is out.

the debian team is trying very hard to get etch released this year, so debian 3.1 would loose support by the end of 2007. This increased release rate in is recognition that very few people want to make new installs with old software (which is very different from the long support option where an old install doesn't have to be reworked for a long time)

the fact that Ubuntu is planning to continue to support this release for 6 releases (desktop) or 10 releases (server) is a huge difference from other free distros. debian by comparison is supporting a release through 1.25-1.5 releases, depending on schedule, redhat is supporting a release through 2 releases.

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