On Lu, 22 apr 13, 01:03:41, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > I stayed with F12 almost 2 and a half years past its EOL. I didn't > like F15, my next usual upgrade, or the following releases, or the > direction Fedora was going. So, I opted against upgrading, but 12 was > having problems. Time for a new OS. So, after some research, I > decided on Debian mainly for its stability and 5+ year support life
A Debian release has security support for approximately 3 years: 2 years as stable and one additional year as oldstable. You can extend that a bit if you switch to testing when it's frozen, but that requires an upgrade oldstable -> stable -> testing (skipping releases is not supported). Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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