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First of all thanks everybody for prompt replies. I see the picture now and it makes me feel good :) So it looks like after deployment of freshly-released "stable" I have about 2 years in average to sleep well without dreaming of upgrades. After that I silently get latest "stable" from repository using, let's say, apt-get, tune/configure system and I'm done for next 2 years rough. Which seems to be a good lifecycle in comparison to, for example, fedora with stated lifecycle 6 month. Please correct me if I'm wrong with my assumptions. On April 20, 2004 11:13 am, Florian Ernst wrote: > Quoting from http://www.debian.org/security/faq#lifespan : > "The security team tries to support a stable distribution for about > one year after the next stable distribution has been released, except > when another stable distribution is released within this year. It is > not possible to support three distributions; supporting two > simultaneously is already difficult enough." Thanks, I somehow missed that part of documentation. > The stable release before Woody, called Potato, has been supported > until June 30th, 2003 which was actually a little bit less than one > year after the release of Woody on July 19, 2002. that's usefull statistics. Really good number for commercial/enterprise deployment of Debian (3+ would be even better but 2 is good enough :) ) > > Or if old "stable" release "dies" after new is out - how one performes > > upgrade etc (I know about apt-get but I guess there's something more > > involved in this process) > > There are numerous update procedures. The Release Notes of the new > release will list the recommended way. Please see > http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading > for an example. thanks again for valuable responses everybody and thanks for pointer to related documents. - -- Dmitry Makovey Web Systems Administrator Athabasca University (780) 675-6245 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAhWimyDrVuGfS98QRAloJAKDEV0vuxVpML0yw2aGUStdA/TWUkACgnLJX l7JXp8fvRfeylFRRS7AvL+o= =7WQa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----