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Re: [opensuse-project] users' perspectives on openSUSE support, backports, our contributions, etc (fwd from user-list)
- From: Martin Schlander <martin.schlander@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 12:57:40 +0200
- Message-id: <200904021257.40822.martin.schlander@xxxxxxxxx>
Onsdag den 1. april 2009 20:50:52 skrev PGNet:
openSUSE provides security fixes and fixes for major bugs for 24 months.
That's better than Fedora (~12 months), Mandriva (~12 months) _and_ Ubuntu (18
months, non-lts).
Even for Debian it's only 30 months (assuming the 18 month release cycle is
followed successfully, which it of course never is.). And for Ubuntu LTS it's
only on 36 months on desktops.
I think this area - the level of support for openSUSE - is one of the areas
where openSUSE is really strong, therefore demanding more seems a bit
unrealistic. And developers wasting time on old stuff, takes away resources
from doing useful things with current stuff.
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http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2009-04/msg00002.html
there
needs to be some middle ground found for project "support" (however
that ends up being defined) other that "Go buy SLES/D ..."
openSUSE provides security fixes and fixes for major bugs for 24 months.
That's better than Fedora (~12 months), Mandriva (~12 months) _and_ Ubuntu (18
months, non-lts).
Even for Debian it's only 30 months (assuming the 18 month release cycle is
followed successfully, which it of course never is.). And for Ubuntu LTS it's
only on 36 months on desktops.
I think this area - the level of support for openSUSE - is one of the areas
where openSUSE is really strong, therefore demanding more seems a bit
unrealistic. And developers wasting time on old stuff, takes away resources
from doing useful things with current stuff.
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