-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2014-09-24 16:06, Timothy Butterworth wrote:
openSUSE Evergreen releases can range from 3-4 years of support but 3 is essentially guaranteed. Starting with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, both The Server and Desktop versions will receive 5 years support.
I use Evergreen; I think that 3 years is very reasonable, and that 5 is excessive for an open release. Why? Because upgrading the machine at the end of the cycle will be close to impossible. You have to install fresh, and on a long used machine there will be lots of configurations and localizations to re-do. As it is, upgrading from 11.4 to 13.1 is a bit difficult. In fact, YaST wants to bail out and not do it. On the other hand, a 4 year old operating system is obsolete. For instance, you have to interact with other people, exchange documents, etc, which you can not do because of the gap. Meaning that you have to update applications to newer versions, which is something Evergreen does not do if it can be avoided: much work, increasing with the gap. IMO, beyond 3 years is the realm for paid versions and support contracts. Yes, I know that many people have been using XP for a very long time. Many still do. But it is a maintenance/support nightmare. XP was very vulnerable, unless you really knew what you were doing. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlQi7YYACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WfZACfah1gk8ODx77xnFSDC5NoCEGu 3gYAnjg3D8ZEoMWSMhE9nUXrkg0NjeNJ =292k -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org