Package: www.debian.org Severity: minor According to http://www.us.debian.org/News/2008/20080229
One year after the release of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias 'etch' and nearly three years after the release of Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias 'sarge' the security support for the old distribution (3.1 alias 'sarge') is coming to an end next month. The Debian project is proud to be able to support its old distribution for such a long time and even for one year after a new version has been released. Saying that "The Debian project is proud to be able to..." is useless so it presumably means to imply that the oldstable has a long security support. But that support is of 1 year or less, while some other distros do much better. For (good) example, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux Red Hat commits to supporting each version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux for 7 years after its release. Since Red Hat releases at least each 3 years, that means Red Hat commits to supporting its "oldstables" for at least 4 years, which is much more than 1 year. IMO, more than 4 years is too much. But comparing to that, it's hard to be proud of under 1 year. IMO it's OK, but not more. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]