On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 02:05:50PM -0500, Scott Balneaves wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 12:21:55PM -0400, Dan Maranville wrote: > I'm really unsure as to why Ubuntu gets all this hate directed against them > because they don't backport new features from more current releases into older > ones. As far as I know, LTSP current isn't being backported into either > Fedora > 3 or Debian Sarge.
well, there haven't been any official Debian backports of LTSP, but i've generally managed to maintain backports for the current Debian stable release for most of, if not the whole cycle of of stable releases. Since Debian Lenny (released in February), there's backported current upstream versions for ldm and ltspfs, and ltsp itself is only missing a few minor updates mostly not relevent to Debian. i only stopped making backports for Debian Etch when the next release (Lenny) went into freeze last summer. similar story for Debian Sarge, although most of the initial Debian LTSP5 implementation was actually mostly tested on sarge, though a version was never included as part of sarge. that said, Debian's support cycles (approximately 3-4 years) are usually a bit shorter than Ubuntu's LTS support cycles (3 for desktop, 5 for server), usually much longer than the "regular" Ubuntu support cycles (1.5 years). Debian's release cycle has been about 2-3 years, while Ubuntu's LTS release cycle seems to be about 1.5-2 years, and Ubuntu's regular release cycle is usually 6 months. i don't know other distro release/support cycles well enough to comment on those. so the desires or needs for a backport may be a little different, as different distros progress in different ways. live well, vagrant ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry leaders in dedicated Performance & Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
