Joe Brouhard wrote: > I'm going to take a crack at this, but the Server Devs can probably > shoot me if I get this wrong...
bang, bang :) > RHEL is a "paid for" system. Nearly all of their developers and > package maintainers are on payroll, so they're paid to maintain those > repos. RHEL is free (as in no price), RHN isn't. > Ubuntu, on the other hand, is almost entirely comprised of volunteers. > Maintaining multiple repos is time-consuming (Running my own local > repo is time consuming by itself), and a lot of the devs don't have > that much time on hand. There is no black and white in open source development model. There are devs paid to work on RedHat/Ubuntu and there are devs that get paid by providing services based on RedHat/Ubuntu. There are also devs work in areas unrelated to Linux or even computers. You can find those both in RedHat and Ubuntu. > Apples and Oranges to me. Right. Both are fruit, so in a way are exactly the same. > The easy way to tell 3 years to 5 year support is LTS Support. LTS > support means more than 3 years. Unless it says LTS, you're going to > get 3 years of support and end up upgrading every couple of months. > At least, that's what I think.. The devs can shoot me if I got this > wrong ;) As other said, this isn't correct. List of programs with 5 year support in 6.06 is here: http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-archive/seeds/ubuntu-server.dapper/server 8.04 will probably have different list. -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server
