Hi, On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Bryen M Yunashko wrote:
On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 18:04 -0300, Marco Calistri wrote:
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Sunday, 2009-08-16 at 13:39 +0200, houghi wrote:
As from 11.2 there will be an 18 months support instead of the 24 previously.
That's bad news. :-(
Not if we have a tool to upgrade without server downtime. ;-))
To me ending support life after 18 months, means no more updates available whatsoever.
Do I lost something?
What he's saying is that with a better improved zypper with in-place live updating, it would be less painful for some people to update and the 18 or 24 months become less relevant.
And - not to forget if you have "users" at your servers - you can fulfill the request for newer versions of this or that package much easier. If you can rely on the "dist upgrade" tool... Viele Gruesse Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org) -- Eberhard Moenkeberg Arbeitsgruppe IT-Infrastruktur E-Mail: emoenke@gwdg.de Tel.: +49 (0)551 201-1551 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gesellschaft fuer wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Goettingen (GWDG) Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Goettingen URL: http://www.gwdg.de E-Mail: gwdg@gwdg.de Tel.: +49 (0)551 201-1510 Fax: +49 (0)551 201-2150 Geschaeftsfuehrer: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Neumair Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Dipl.-Kfm. Markus Hoppe Sitz der Gesellschaft: Goettingen Registergericht: Goettingen Handelsregister-Nr. B 598 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org