On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:52:38 +0300,Andrei POPESCU <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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). My research of past Debian releases showed a longer support life, but 3+ years will work, too. That will be about the time to decide whether this system needs replacing, and along with it a newer OS. B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130430093852.5f200...@debian7.boseck208.net
