Am Donnerstag, den 11.10.2012, 16:14 -0400 schrieb Paul Tagliamonte: > On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 09:45:58PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: > > Marco Nenciarini <mnen...@debian.org> writes: > > > > > Il giorno gio, 11/10/2012 alle 02.46 +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer ha > > > scritto: > > >> > > >> On the other hand, some worries are there that this could imply some > > >> decline in Debian itself. > > >> Well I still think Debian is the best distro out there for most (if not > > >> all cases), even though I'd like to see it putting more emphasis on > > >> security. > > > > > > I've seen recently several company I'm working with getting away from > > > Debian in favor of Ubuntu because they have a LTS version. However I > > > don't know if this is a general trend. > > > > I can confirm the trend for a couple of organisations. The primary > > reason that I identified was the retirement of security support for > > Lenny and that Lenny packages are removed from many Debian mirrors which > > made it difficult to use Lenny machines. IMHO, supporting an OS release > > for only 3 years is not long enough. > > FWIW, it should be noted Ubuntu only supports most packages for 3 years > as well. The subset of packages considered for "Server" support is > supported for 5, but most people will suggest you follow the LTS upgrade > path, which is very similar to Debian Stable's.
Since Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, the LTS versions are supported for five years on the desktop, too. [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS -- Benjamin Drung Debian & Ubuntu Developer
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