"Johannes Nohl"
Saying LTS I mean Long Term Support as ubuntu people do.
I know there's SEL but I'm asking for the open Suse. I'm configuring a new webserver right now. And I'm seriosly thinking about waiting for the next ubuntu LTS. I always ran the machines longer than two years. Often the contract duration for the dedicated hardware is two years yet. And although upgrading worked so far for me there were always small changes which you couldn't see in advance, like postfix complaining about file permissions.
I really enjoy OpenSuse but a life cycle of two years is - except for desktops - to short. Not every release has to be supported long term but what about every third? Couldn't the life cycle be 4.5 years?
Novell offers the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Desktop products which are basically LTS versions - but you need to pay for them. On the other hand, with the build service it would be possible for community members to support an openSUSE release for a longer term than we're doing and create an own update channel. Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Director Platform / openSUSE, aj@suse.de SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126