Red Hat intros 12 month only support on 'consumer' OSes (Register)

Posted Jan 28, 2003 10:05 UTC (Tue) by mwilck (subscriber, #1966)
In reply to: Red Hat intros 12 month only support on 'consumer' OSes (Register) by mrshiny
Parent article: Red Hat intros 12 month only support on 'consumer' OSes (Register)

> Only release a new distro every year or two; users won't really like
> this.

Commercial customers do like this, that's the whole point of Advanced Server and SuSE Enterprise server.

For end users, too, there might be better options than publishing a new version every 6 months. By keeping the most important user land applications up-to-date, distributors would strongly reduce the need to upgrade the whole distribution.