[TriLUG] What Distro Would You Recommend?

Rick DeNatale rick.denatale at gmail.com
Tue Dec 20 13:55:35 EST 2005


On 12/20/05, Tanner Lovelace <clubjuggler at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/20/05, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Not the release cycle, the SUPPORT cycle.  In other words they will
> > still put out new releases every six months, but they will continue to
> > provide security updates for 3-5 years for all previous releases back
> > to 5.10.  This is great for server installations who don't want to
>
> Slight correction here.  5.10 is on the 18 month support cycle.
> Release 6.04 is the one that will go to the 3 year desktop/5 year
> server support cycle.

Right you are, I had remembered that the announcement was made back
last summer and assumed that it was to go into effect for 5.10, now
I've gone back and read the fine print.  Even so it still feels like
one of the best deals around.



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