On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 15:29 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Tuesday 05 June 2012 18:55:59 Nuno Magalhães wrote: > > That's awkward, i was under the impression there was a change some > > years back so that the stable branch would change to a 6 months > > release schedule. Did that never go through or was it only temporary? > > It was cancelled, though they seem to be trying to keep the gap between > releases a bit shorter. But the fact that Debian stable is well debugged and > > only released when it is ready, is one of the reasons that I, and, I imagine, > > others, use it. > > I am just sorry that they have changed it at all. Ubuntu now has 5 year > support for its long term supported version. Such a pity that Debian is > going the other way. :-( > > Lisi
For my needs I unfortunately have to switch distros and versions very often, but FULL ACK, if a system does fit to our needs, we should use it 10 or 15 years or forever. By theory it's possible for my needs, since a DAW doesn't need security upgrades for the browser etc., unfortunately I need to exchange some hardware from time to time. Unfortunately compiling stuff doesn't work after a while, because you'll run into dependency hell, sometimes a patch that simply add a header to the old source code can help, but anyway, it's a PITA to maintain old faithful OSes. Pff, no modern monitor is "slow enough" so that I can use it with my Atari ST ... dinos will die and make place for something new. That ships with advantages and drawbacks ;). -- 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/1340635188.1349.59.camel@localhost.localdomain
