Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (422 mails)

[Wolfgang Rosenauer <wolfgang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Am 11.12.2010 13:54, schrieb Kim Leyendecker:
> They are three important issues:
>
> 1.) Support: This is one of the major problems. If I want to use a LTS
> version, I need Support, right? Who want to give the support. I don´t
> know but _I_ need secure, when I use a LTS version.

There is not more "support" for LTS as you get for openSUSE. If you need
support then you really need to buy SLES because that is what it is about.

> 2.) Updates: Yes, maybe it´s the same like support, but updates are
> important. An example is the Kernel. I don´t need a LTS version, that
> needs a new kernel every month. There´s a LTS kernel the right choose.
> But If I use the LTS version for a server, I want to have the latest
> security updates. How we can realize that there are the updates for the
> system? Maybe we can use Thumbleweed for updates (e.g. for Firefox or
> Thunderbird) these programmes are not so "important" like KDE or GNOME.
> I think a LTS version don´t need the latest desktop environment. But the
> latest browser is a "must-have", because of security.

That is what that all is about. What did you expect by LTS. It's meant
to be a longer supported (as in security updates) openSUSE release.
The plan would be to just do the same as during the first 18 months of
its lifetime for a longer time.

> 3.) Publishing: With which version we would start? How we would build
> it? I mean if it base on openSUSE 11.3, and we release it in March 2011,
> 11.4 comes in a few days. Maybe a SLE-clone is much better than a system
> that base on openSUSE. Hope you know what I mean.

For different reasons it could make sense to start with 11.1.
But let me explain again. openSUSE LTS (or however it is called in the
end) is _not_ a new distribution. Somehow I think you haven't read the
earlier mails carefully. It just means that security maintenance will be
available after the first 18 months (which are guaranteed by our main
sponsor).


Wolfgang
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